Mistresses come in threes?
Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a second employee at the chipmaking giant, bringing the number of women romantically linked to the married billionaire executive to three, according to a report.
Reuters cited two people familiar with the previously undisclosed relationship, which emerged after Huang stepped down following revelations of his involvement with two other women.
The news agency did not identify the latest employee and said its attempts to contact her were unsuccessful.
Huang, 63, resigned Thursday after reports that he had affairs with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of health care, and Alice Huang, a Chinese business executive whom US intelligence officials suspect of working for Beijing.
The wealthy tech whiz has been married to Lori Huang for more than 40 years. The couple has two children.
The company’s board tapped Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress to serve as interim CEO while directors search for a permanent successor, according to the New York Times.
Powell, 48, has worked at Nvidia since 2008 and reports to Huang, according to the Times, which cited five former or current employees in detailing the relationship.
During the company’s annual developer conference in San Jose, Calif., in March, the two were seen displaying affection at a nearby hotel, the newspaper reported.
A witness recorded the encounter before being detained by Huang’s security personnel and offered a nondisclosure agreement, according to the Times, which said it had not seen the footage.
The controversy surrounding Alice Huang has raised separate national-security concerns.
The Chinese executive, also known as Huang Le — no relation to the Nvidia exec — previously served as managing director of Megaspeed International, a Singapore-based cloud-computing company that provides access to advanced Nvidia processors.
US intelligence agencies reportedly concluded that she had been recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security to gather information about the Nvidia chief.
Beijing has rejected the espionage allegations, and the available reporting has not established that Jensen Huang knowingly assisted Chinese intelligence.
Here’s the latest on the Nvidia CEO’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy:
On Sunday, the Nvidia co-founder acknowledged being unfaithful to his wife but did not publicly identify the woman involved.
The company’s board initially expressed confidence in him and launched an independent investigation into the controversy.
Huang, Powell and a representative of the board did not respond to Reuters’ requests for comment, while Alice Huang could not be reached.
The latest disclosure comes as Nvidia faces questions about its leadership following the abrupt exit of the executive who had run the company since its founding in 1993.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast (R-Fla.) told reporters Thursday that Huang’s team confirmed he would testify before Congress after Mast and two other GOP committee chairmen threatened him with a subpoena Wednesday.
The Post has sought comment from Nvidia.