When Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang apologized to his employees for marital infidelity, he addressed the note “To my colleagues at Nvidia”—then began talking directly to his family.
The Wall Street Journal and other outlets have reported that the U.S. government believes Alice Huang, then a top executive of a Singaporean data center company that works with Nvidia, was providing information to China’s intelligence services while engaged in a relationship with Jensen Huang. “I hope our family will heal and that, over time, I can earn back your trust. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based semiconductor firm has long stood out among its tech-giant peers for its unusually small workforce and flat leadership structure. A CEO without a clear No. Huang’s two children, daughter Madison Huang and son Spencer Huang, both work for Nvidia, as does Madison’s husband, Nico Caprez. The new disclosures have raised questions about the Nvidia leader’s lobbying against export controls prohibiting sales of powerful AI chips within China and the company’s efforts to keep chips it sells from winding up there. By some measures Jensen Huang has made Nvidia a family business to a degree that is unique in Silicon Valley.
2 or successor, Huang manages a huge swath of the company personally—while increasingly entrusting responsibility to the next generation of his family. The firm he co-founded has grown into the world’s most valuable company, with a market capitalization of more than $4 trillion.
“I know an apology cannot undo what I have done,” he wrote. On Sunday, Nvidia’s board of directors said it was launching an investigation into reports that Huang had been the target of a foreign intelligence effort. On Sunday, President Trump said on Fox News he thought Huang should stay on as CEO.
Huang has put the two children he has with his wife of more than 40 years in high-priority business units at Nvidia. His total compensation for fiscal 2026 was $1.3 million, while Madison Huang’s was $1.2 million, according to a proxy statement filed by Nvidia in May. Caprez, who began dating Madison Huang while both were in business school in London, became a vice president in January, after joining the firm in 2024 as a corporate development manager. Jensen Huang and wife Lori Huang met while studying at Oregon State University, when he was 17 and she was 19. He also promised her that she would be a CEO of a company by the time he was 30. Lori Huang often accompanies him to events and serves as president of the family’s $9 billion charitable foundation. In 1993, when Huang founded Nvidia, he was already a father.
Madison Huang has spent much of her time working on Omniverse, a software division seen as key to helping the company expand beyond the hardware business. Spencer Huang, who works in Nvidia’s robotics group, is more soft-spoken than his hard-charging sister, employees say. Neither followed a traditional path to Nvidia. Madison Huang went to the Culinary Institute of America and Le Cordon Bleu, and has also worked for the luxury goods conglomerate LVMH. Her brother moved to Taipei and opened a popular cocktail bar before returning to get his M.B.A. at New York University. Newlyweds Madison Huang and Caprez were in attendance last week when Jensen Huang hosted a gala to benefit the San Francisco Opera, which was attended by a who’s-who of AI executives. A former Alpine ski racer, he is now one of the main executives in charge of Nvidia’s relationships with up-and-coming cloud-computing providers and its strategy of providing financial guarantees to customers. He joked that he didn’t know his own address or pay any of his bills. He and his wife raised their children in San Jose, before moving to a home in Los Altos Hills. The children grew up attending Nvidia events, including the company’s annual GTC conference. He once remarked in a company all-hands that he thought parents wouldn’t suggest their children as employees unless they were qualified enough to have the job. Write to Anissa Gardizy at [email protected] and Robbie Whelan at [email protected]
She often accompanies her father on business trips and is part of a small group of Nvidia executives known informally as “The Band” who travel with him to help manage his presentation at speaking engagements, according to people familiar with the matter. In a toast at the gala, the Nvidia CEO thanked Madison Huang for the personalized touches she brought to the event, which included elaborate decorations that evoked the set of “The Marriage of Figaro,” the Mozart opera being performed later that night, passed hors d’oeuvres including beef Wellington bites and tuna carpaccio, and a whiskey cocktail named for Count Almaviva, a character from the opera, according to a person who attended. Jensen Huang said in a fireside chat that he told her she would get straight A’s in school if she studied with him every week. “As a result, I had a date every Sunday,” he said. Jensen Huang remarked recently to senior executives that since he and Lori got married, she has done everything for him, including signing paperwork and managing their finances, according to someone who heard the remarks. Jensen Huang once told a close family friend, when his children were young, that it would be his dream if one of them ran Nvidia one day. He also quipped that the children of employees sometimes do better than their parents, according to employees who were there.
