Ex-Nvidia CEO misled top lawyer on affair with Chinese businesswoman: Reuters

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On November 12, Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO, a spectacular fall from the chip industry’s heights where he was a pioneer of technology central to the recent boom in artificial…

Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang misled several of the company’s leaders, including general counsel Tim Teter and chief marketing officer Alison Wagonfeld, about the nature of his relationship with Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang, with whom he had an affair, according to two people familiar with the matter and internal correspondence reviewed by Reuters.

Reuters reviewed several exchanges from October on condition of not quoting verbatim from the messages. The news agency is the first to report on this correspondence.

On Thursday, November 12, Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO, a spectacular fall from the chip industry’s heights where he was a pioneer of technology central to the recent boom in artificial intelligence.

He apologised in a statement on Sunday for being unfaithful to his wife and for disappointing the company. His statement did not specifically name Alice Huang, a former top executive of Nvidia customer Megaspeed International, whom the US was investigating for potentially spying for China. Jensen Huang and Alice Huang share a last name but are not related.

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The New York Times earlier this week reported Huang also had an extramarital relationship with an Nvidia employee, and Reuters reported on Thursday that Huang had another intimate relationship with a different Nvidia employee.

Teter did not respond to a request for comment. Wagonfeld did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A representative for ex-CEO Huang and an Nvidia spokesperson declined to comment. A phone call and email to the contact information listed on a business card for Alice Huang went unanswered.

During the autumn of 2025 and in October 2026, in response to press queries that drew some Nvidia leaders’ attention to his relationship with Megaspeed and Alice Huang, Huang at both times described their interactions as appropriate, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

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