Nicolas Puech (born 1943) is a French billionaire heir and businessman, a fifth-generation descendant of Thierry Hermès.
Nicolas Puech was born in 1943 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the son of Francis Puech and Yvonne Hermès.
He is the brother of Bertrand Puech and the cousin of Jean-Louis Dumas.
Puech lives in Martigny, Switzerland.
In 2023, the Swiss media reported that Puech intended to cancel his inheritance contract with the Isocrates Foundation and leave half of his fortune to his former gardener, who he planned to adopt.
The charitable foundation, which Puech founded and served on as board president, formally opposed the annulment.
2014
He resigned from the company's supervisory board in 2014, but still owns 5% of Hermès.