Kimberly Powell: Jensen Huang's 2nd affair with Nvidia VP who is also married

Kimberly Powell joined Nvidia as a director in 2008 and has steadily risen through the company's ranks. According to her corporate profile, she initially worked on promoting the use of Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips in medical imaging.Huang Jensen and Kimberly PowellNew Delhi,Nov 12, 2026 07:05 ISTKimberly Powell has spent more than 18 years climbing the ranks at Nvidia, from joining the chipmaker as a director in 2008 to becoming its vice president of healthcare. Now, the 48-year-old executive, who is married to someone else, has found herself in the spotlight for a very different reason: her alleged relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, 63, whom she reports to, according to a New York Times report.The newspaper, citing five people who worked at Nvidia, reported that Huang and Powell were seen being affectionate at a hotel in San Jose, California, during the company's annual developer conference in March. Two of the sources said the interaction was captured on video. The Times, however, said it had not seen the footage.Huang declined to discuss his relationship with Powell when contacted by the newspaper. Nvidia declined to comment, while Powell did not immediately respond to a request for comment, the Times reported.So, who is Kimberly Powell, the Nvidia executive whose name has now surfaced in the reports surrounding the company's CEO? WHO IS KIMBERLY POWELL?Powell joined Nvidia as a director in 2008 and has steadily risen through the company's ranks. According to her corporate profile, she initially worked on promoting the use of Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips in medical imaging.Before joining the chipmaker, Powell worked as an engineer and later in product development at an electronics startup. She eventually approached Nvidia to discuss its computing chips. When the company recognised the potential applications of its technology in healthcare, it contacted her about joining, she said in an episode of the Lifers podcast published in August. Powell described the opportunity as a "dream come true" during the interview.According to her LinkedIn profile, she was promoted to senior director in 2016 and led a business development team focused on artificial intelligence. By late 2017, she had become Nvidia's vice president of healthcare.She currently oversees both the hardware and software sides of the company's healthcare business, including technology related to medical imaging, life sciences and drug discovery."I pretty much live and breathe healthcare. So I'm talking about it all the time," Powell told Business Insider in 2025.- Ends