Ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang misled executives about affairs, sources say

Jensen Huang, who resigned as Nvidia CEO on Thursday amid a board investigation, misled key company insiders, including legal and communications executives, by personally approving denials of his affair with alleged China spy Alice Huang, leaving them embarrassed when the truth emerged. He structured the company to keep executives compartmentalized, with 60 direct reports and up to 1,000 emails daily, hiding his activities by design. Huang approved statements by general counsel Tim Teter and communications head John Rizzo, who publicly dismissed reports as "not unusual or unexpected," and he personally denied the affair to Bloomberg. He only admitted to one relationship last Friday when confronted by Teter, but reports later revealed affairs with healthcare VP Kimberly Powell and a third woman, contradicting his claims. The denials began in late 2024 when the New York Times investigated Nvidia's ties to Megaspeed, which US officials suspected of smuggling AI chips to China. Huang called affair insinuations "categorically untrue" and "almost offensive," while a photo of him with Alice Huang at a Taipei bar in June 2024 fueled the reports.