Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang embroiled in cheating scandal with two women
On 8 Nov, CEO of American tech titan Nvidia Jensen Huang admitted to cheating on his wife of 41 years, Lori Mills Huang, in a company-wide email.
While the woman involved in the affair was not named, media reports linked his infidelity to Ms Alice Huang, a Chinese national and former tech executive at Megaspeed.
Days later, internal sources told the New York Times that Mr Huang also had an extramarital relationship with Ms Kimberly Powell, Vice President (VP) of healthcare at Nvidia.
Here’s everything you need to know about the two alleged mistresses.
Who is Alice Huang?
1. Education and early career
Ms Alice Huang was born in 1984 and raised in Hunan, China. She is also known as Huang Xiao Le.
Ms Huang graduated from Hunan Xiangtan Jiangnan Machinery Factory Affiliated Secondary School.
Source: @dahuaerda on X
She went on to pursue a master’s degree in media management at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2006.
In a report by NDTV, a former classmate described her as “well-liked, easygoing and ambitious”.
Source: 作家崔成浩 on X
While it has been speculated that Ms Huang worked as a reporter at Hunan TV and China Central Television (CCTV), there is no public record of her working at either news channel.
However, the Washington Post reported that former Chinese news anchor Bai Jie wrote on Weibo that she knew Huang from when they worked together as journalists.
The post disappeared hours later, with Bai denying the existence of the post. Bai did not respond to media requests for a statement.
2. Transitioned from journalism to finance and tech
Ms Huang would eventually move into the finance industry.
According to a social media post by Shanghai Hexi Investment Management, she had a stint at London-based global banking firm HSBC, and Chinese state-owned financial conglomerate CITIC.
She was deputy general manager of private equity firm Shanghai Hexi since Nov 2015.
According the Wall Street Journal who cited individuals familiar with the couple, Ms Huang is married to Chinese financier Kang Wei who is believed to have founded Shanghai Hexi.
In March 2023, Ms Huang joined Singapore-based tech firm Megaspeed as a director and controlling shareholder. She left eight months later.
Megaspeed was a subsidiary of Chinese gaming company 7Road International. It is owned by the Singapore-registered Swiftdata, incorporated in Oct 2023.
The subsidiary spun off from its parent company to lend clients computing power from its data centres, which were powered by Nvidia chips.
Ms Huang’s sister, Huang Yu, has also been listed as a director and investor in companies with business ties to Nvidia.
3. Suspected of being a government spy
Corporate filings showed that Megaspeed’s assets increased from US$33 million in 2023 to US$3 billion in 2024.
This raised suspicions among US officials that the company was routing Nvidia’s cutting-edge chips to Chinese firms, violating the policies of US export controls.
Ms Huang’s involvement in Megaspeed has put her under intense scrutiny by the US government.
In 2025, a memo was first circulated among top policymakers in the Trump administration.
It alleged that Ms Huang was leveraging her proximity to Mr Huang and secretly working as a spy for China’s Ministry of State Security.
She was reportedly recruited to collect and provide insider information about American AI chips to Beijing’s top spy agency.
At the time of writing, Ms Huang’s current whereabouts are not clear.
In a press statement on Sunday (8 Nov), Nvidia said it was independently investigating whether Mr Huang was “the target of a foreign intelligence effort”.
At the time, it had no reason to believe that state or corporate secrets had been compromised.
Source: AB Kuai.Dong on X
4. Alice Huang posted publicly about affair on WeChat
With Megaspeed as a Nvidia customer, Ms Huang made public appearances with Mr Huang in a professional capacity, while their affair was secretly ongoing.
The two were first spotted together at an industry party in June 2024, during the Computex 2024 technology exhibition in Taipei.
The pair were later photographed leaving a Taipei restaurant together in May 2025. AFP reported that Mr Huang was seen putting his arm around Ms Huang, with her kissing him on the right cheek.
On X, a Binance user anonymously leaked photos of the two from Ms Huang’s WeChat that dated back to June 2024. She previously shared photos of her travel experiences on the platform.
After news of the affair broke, Ms Huang allegedly hid her Moments posts, despite openly posting photos of her with Mr Huang for the past six months.
At the time, many people thought the images were AI-generated.
Source: AB Kuai.Dong on X
Unverified reports online claimed that it was actually Ms Huang’s husband that first introduced her to the tech CEO.
He allegedly flaunted the relationship between Mr Huang and Ms Huang to clients in order to sell more chips.
Who is Kimberly Powell?
1. Education background
Ms Kimberly Powell graduated from Northwestern University in 2001 with a degree in Electrical Engineering and a concentration in Computer Engineering, according to her LinkedIn profile.
The 48-year-old also worked at American digital display manufacturing corporation Planar Systems as a hardware engineer and later as a product marketing manager.
2. Meteoric career rise at Nvidia
In 2008, Ms Powell joined Nvidia as the director of Business Development, Higher Education and Healthcare. She held the position for seven years.
According to the company’s website, Ms Powell oversaw programmes that could apply Nvidia’s chip technology to higher education and health care, particularly medical imaging devices.
In 2016, she became senior director of Artificial Intelligence Business Development.
A year later, she was appointed Vice President and General Manager of Healthcare.
She attended technology conferences around the world and delivered speeches as a Nvidia representative.
Source: The AI Summit Series via Youtube
Ms Powell reported directly to Mr Huang, who is 63.
Nvidia’s code of conduct, which begins with a letter from Huang, explicitly states that personal relations within the company are a conflict of interest, and that reports of misconduct are promptly investigated.
3. Married with children
According to a report by the New York Post, Ms Powell is married to 54-year-old Graham Gerade. The couple have two children.
She allegedly posted photos of her family on social media, but they are not publicly available.
The couple reportedly live in a mansion in Northern California, valued at USD$4.7 million (~S$6,039,594.00).
She mentioned Mr Huang publicly in an X post on 11 Jun 2016.
Ms Powell wrote: “(Jensen) is named as one of America’s top CEOs by Glassdoor Survey! It’s an awesome place to work, come join us!”
4. Company employees allegedly knew about affair
Five people told the New York Times that Mr. Huang’s relationship with Ms. Powell has been discussed inside the company.
Multiple people saw the two being intimate at hotels.
Two Nvidia employees said that Mr Huang and Ms Powell were spotted being physically affectionate at a hotel in San Jose, California. They were there for a Nvidia conference in March.
One bystander captured the interaction on their phone, three people briefed on the incident said. No official records of the video are publicly available.
The people claimed that Mr. Huang’s security witnessed the bystander with their phone and sequestered them.
The security then made the person an offer to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
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Featured image adapted from 黄小樂 on LinkedIn via Wikipedia (left) and Nvidia via Marktech (right).