Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was reportedly involved in more than one extramarital affair, this time with a senior executive at the AI chipmaker.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing five people who worked at Nvidia, that Huang had an alleged relationship with Kimberly Powell, the company’s vice-president of healthcare who reports directly to him.

Powell is Nvidia’s vice-president of healthcare and leads the company’s worldwide healthcare business. She has been with the AI chipmaker since 2008 and has played a key role in expanding its GPU and AI technology into healthcare and medical research.

According to Nvidia’s profile, Powell joined the company to establish its GPUs as accelerator platforms for medical imaging equipment. She was promoted to senior director of AI business development in 2016 and became vice-president of healthcare in 2017.

Her portfolio covers accelerated computing, AI, and visualisation technologies used in medical imaging, life sciences, drug discovery, healthcare analytics and medical robotics.

Powell has also been involved in Nvidia’s healthcare and life sciences platforms, including MONAI for medical imaging, BioNeMo for generative AI applications in biology and drug discovery, Parabricks for genomic analysis and Holoscan for real-time sensor processing and AI applications.

Before joining Nvidia, Powell worked in hardware engineering and product management at Planar Systems.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, specialising in computer engineering, from Northeastern University in Massachusetts.

However, inside Nvidia, Huang and Powell’s affair was not new and had been internally discussed in the past. Three people briefed on the incident reportedly said Huang’s security personnel approached the person who recorded the interaction and sought a non-disclosure agreement.

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