Nvidia's CEO Resigned Following A Spying Scandal

• 12.11.2026, 17:28

The company does not have a clear succession plan.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned after reports of two extramarital affairs came to light, according to Bloomberg. The CFO Colette Kress will temporarily assume the duties of the company’s CEO.

According to the agency, Huang, one of the three engineers who founded Nvidia in 1993, had been under intense pressure since Sunday. At that time, he admitted to a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, the former head of the Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed International.

Bloomberg notes that the departure of 63-year-old Huang exacerbates a crisis that, to some extent, was created by Nvidia itself: he was the only CEO in the company’s history, and there was no clear succession plan in place. “It’s fair to say that Huang, more than any other founder in the tech industry, built Nvidia around himself and his own vision for running the company,” the agency writes.

On November 8, Nvidia’s board of directors announced the launch of an independent investigation. The statement came after reports that Huang may have been “the target of a foreign intelligence operation.” In a memo to employees, he admitted to cheating on his wife and apologized.

According to The New York Times, U.S. intelligence concluded that Alice Huang may have been passing information to Beijing, and that the affair was likely used to obtain confidential data on artificial intelligence technologies and circumvent U.S. export restrictions. China has rejected these allegations.

In addition, as the publication reported, Jensen Huang had an affair with Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare, Kimberly Powell.