Nvidia employees are urging the company’s board to reconsider Jensen Huang’s abrupt departure as CEO. An internal suggestion-box submission, filed by a longtime engineer before Huang resigned, asked the board to weigh staff views and share the results of its inquiry before deciding his future. It has since drawn more than 1,600 comments, many calling for Huang’s return and arguing that his decades of leadership and contributions to Nvidia merit a second chance. A separate companywide email called for transparency and said support for fairness did not require abandoning a leader employees admired. The engineer and email author did not comment publicly.
Huang, who led Nvidia from its founding in 1993, acknowledged being unfaithful to his wife, saying there was no excuse. His resignation followed reports of multiple alleged affairs, including one involving a direct report; one report raised the possibility that another person was a Chinese intelligence asset. Nvidia’s board appointed CFO Colette Kress interim CEO and investor Harvey Jones chair, while an investigation had only just begun. Employees were reportedly stunned, and staffers want to know why Huang left before it concluded. The turmoil has coincided with a $1 trillion loss in Nvidia’s market value, US congressional and FBI investigations, and possible new chip-export controls. Despite the allegations and corporate fallout, the reported employee response has been overwhelmingly supportive of Huang, with no identified employee posts backing his resignation.
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