Who is Kimberly Powell? Nvidia vice president named in new report alleging extramarital affair with married CEO Jensen Huang. (NVIDIA Blog)
For those unaware, Powell is one of Nvidia’s longest-serving senior executives and have spent more than 18 years at the company and also helped in building its healthcare business into a key growth area for the AI chip giant. Powell joined the company in 2008 with the goal of establishing Nvidia GPUs as an accelerator platform for medical imaging systems, according to her Nvidia profile. Nvidia, Huang and Powell have not yet confirmed the claims.
Huang also had a relationship with Powell, who reports to him, quoting give people who worked at the company and spoke anonymously, according to a recent report by New York Times. Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare, is now at the centre of a new report about CEO Jensen Huang. Presently, Powell serves as vice president of healthcare at Nvidia where she oversees the company’s worldwide healthcare operations. Her responsibilities span hardware and software platforms used for accelerated computing, artificial intelligence, medical imaging, life sciences, drug discovery and healthcare analytics. Over the years, she took on a series of leadership roles as Nvidia expanded beyond graphics processing into AI and high-performance computing applications.
Nvidia shares fell about 3% in extended trading. Shortly after the Times story, the Wall Street Journal reported that the board is preparing to remove him, according to coverage of that report.
President Donald Trump said he had not discussed the allegations with Huang but called him “an honourable guy” who has “done an amazing job for our country.” The report came days after Nvidia’s board opened an investigation into Huang over his ties to Alice Huang, a woman US officials believe was recruited by Chinese intelligence. Huang admitted in a message to staff on Sunday that he had been unfaithful to his wife.