Exclusive | How ex-Nvidia CEO kept top executives in dark about his string of affairs: Jensen by design

Ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang concealed a string of reported affairs with women that included an alleged Chinese spy from key executives at the chipmaking giant — partly with the help of an unusual and opaque management structure that one insider called “Jensen by design,” The Post has learned.Huang, who resigned as Nvidia CEO on Thursday after the board began an investigation, had a direct hand in crafting and approving the company’s earlier denials about his romantic entanglement with alleged China spy Alice Huang, three sources familiar with the matter said.In doing so, Jensen Huang misled high-level company insiders that included key members of Nvidia’s legal team – leaving them with egg on their faces when he was finally forced to admit the truth, sources told The Post.Those included general counsel Tim Teter, as well as the chipmaker’s head of public policy communications, John Rizzo, the sources added.Nvidia’s aggressive pushback on reports about Huang’s affair had included a fiery statement by Rizzo, who told the New York Times on Oct.29 that Huang’s relationship with former Megaspeed executive Alice Huang was “not unusual or unexpected.”“Jensen personally approved and authorized” the company’s responses, one source told The Post.One source said media reports of Huang’s affairs had blindsided many executives – with some reckoning that the CEO had been able to hide his shenanigans partly because the company’s dozens of teams at its headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., and across the US and abroad are highly compartmentalized.

In a stunning show of micromanagement, Huang was communicating with a staggering 60 executives who reported to him directly, responding to as many as 1,000 emails in a single day.“He intentionally structured the company in such a way that no one executive knew what he was up to,” the source told The Post.“I think that’s Jensen by design.

This guy is smart.”Huang also was frequently and directl...