Nvidia is apparently preparing to oust CEO Jen-Hsun Huang
Nvidia wants to separate Jen-Hsun Huang as CEO. The board wants to meet in these hours to decide on Huang’s future as head of the graphics chip specialist. Another affair with an employee recently became known.
Board wants to decide whether to dismiss the CEO
According to media reports, the air for Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang at the top of Nvidia is becoming increasingly thin. According to the Wall Street Journal The board of directors of the company, which is at the forefront of the current AI boom thanks to its chips, is preparing to dismiss Huang. According to the report, which is based on various sources from the Nvidia environment, the board wants to decide today (local time) on Huang’s future at the top of the company. Huang is said to be leaving as CEO.
Nvidia is reportedly already looking for a new CEO
According to the US Economic Service, a possible replacement could be Bloomberg CFO Colette Kress will step in, at least temporarily. She has worked as CFO for Nvidia for around ten years and is considered reliable and trustworthy. Meanwhile, Nvidia’s board has reportedly already hired an outside consulting firm to find a successor to Huang as CEO. The problem is that no preparations have ever been made for Huang to say goodbye.
Shortly before the newspaper report The New York Times reported that Huang apparently had a second extramarital affair. The Nvidia boss is said to have had an affair with Kimberly Powell, who works as vice president of healthcare for the company. In March 2026, Powell and Huang are said to have exchanged affection at the GTC conference organized by Nvidia in California, according to two company employees. Both are married.
After security at the event noticed someone videotaping Huang and Powell’s behavior, they reportedly offered the person filming a non-disclosure agreement. In recent days it became known that Huang was also said to have had an extramarital relationship with the Chinese-born boss of the Singapore-based AI company Megaspeed. Ms. Powell has been with Nvidia since 2008 and was named head of health technologies in 2017. She is responsible for working on products that can use Nvidia chips for educational and medical purposes.
Nvidia has internal regulations that expressly prohibit relationships with employees if this could lead to conflicts. For Nvidia, saying goodbye to Huang would probably be the worst possible consequence of the events of the last few days. The company is at the center of the AI boom and continues to dominate the market with its extremely powerful chips used to train and operate language models from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic.
Amit Gohar is Technical writer at ResearchSnipers.com, he is well versed Technology News writer, he has completed is MS computer Science in 2020. He can be reached at amit.g@researchsnipers.com
