Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is reported to have had an extramarital relationship with Kimberly Powell, the company’s vice president of health care. The New York Times said the pair were seen behaving affectionately at a San Jose hotel in March. Powell joined Nvidia in 2008 and has led its health-care group since 2017, overseeing products and platforms used in medical imaging, life sciences, drug discovery and health-care analytics. A former employee said rumors about the relationship had circulated for years, partly because Powell lacked a health or science background. Nvidia and a crisis communications firm reportedly hired by Huang did not immediately comment.
The report follows Huang’s acknowledgment of an affair with Alice Huang, whom U.S. intelligence officials reportedly suspect of working for China’s Ministry of State Security. Huang apologized to his wife, children and Nvidia staff, while the company’s board opened an independent investigation into the spying allegations and hired the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Separately, the Wall Street Journal reported that the board was preparing to oust Huang. Nvidia shares fell more than 7% in after-hours trading and were already under pressure from concerns about the durability of AI infrastructure spending and potential obstacles to data-center construction.
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