Ken Nicosia

A northern New Jersey Native, Nicosia always loved to race and ski fast. After ski-bumming for a while at Snowbird, Utah, he found a tech rep position with Trappeur-Spalding-Caber on the Pro Tour and later went to work into retail management for Sitzmark ski shops.

He joined Lange in 1979 as service manager and focused his interest on the company's racing activities, helping racer chasers in the field. In 1982, Ken Nicosia was promoted to the position of Racing Coordinator. For the following two years, he traveled the world over with the US and Canadian ski teams through the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics in which Lange boots garnered 6 gold medals. He also brought his ski tuning expertise to the company when Lange USA took over the distribution of Authier skis that would eventually be renamed Lange.

In the spring of 1984, Nicosia left Lange to work for Fischer/Dynafit, developing their new race boot. Today, he still calls New Jersey home and works for Sysco foodservice.