Nicholas DuBrul is an entrepreneur and investor. Until 2001, he was the director of electronic products at Giga Information Group an IT advisory firm. Prior to that he was an Architect with Harry Teague Architects. As the grandson of Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke, the founders of modern Aspen, he has had a lifelong commitment to the humanist ideals of the mind, body and spirit. Nicholas is a trustee of the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and sits on the Aspen Institute’s Art Advisory Committee. He attended Middlebury College, Oxford University and received his Masters in Architecture from Columbia University.