Nick Holroyd
Technical Director, GB1 / Athena Sports Group
Nick Holroyd is Technical Director at GB1, Britain’s Challenger of Record for the 38th America’s Cup in Naples. He leads the design and engineering programme behind the team’s fourth consecutive Cup campaign.
A professional sailor in the IOR, IMS and Mumm 36 classes in the 1990s, Nick has nearly three decades of America’s Cup experience. He joined Team New Zealand in 1997 as a foil designer and naval architect, and designed the appendages for NZL60 that won the Cup in 2000. As Technical Director from 2007 to 2015, he helped the team win the Louis Vuitton Cup in 2007 and 2013, and he led the design group that brought foiling to the Cup.
Having sailed with Sir Ben Ainslie on the Team New Zealand B-boat during the 2007 campaign, Nick joined Ben’s British team as Chief Designer in 2018. He headed the AC75 design programmes that won the team the 2024 Louis Vuitton Cup.