Jensen Huang‘s public apology for his infidelity has brought more than just the private life of Nvidia’s powerful CEO into the spotlight. As the company’s board investigates reports that its leader may have been targeted by a foreign intelligence service, growing attention is also being paid to his family’s particularly strong presence within the company: both of his children and his daughter’s husband work at Nvidia, in areas considered important to the future growth of the technology giant.

When Jensen Huang apologised to Nvidia employees for his extramarital relationship, he addressed his message to “my colleagues at Nvidia” before turning personally to his family.

The company’s founder and chief executive acknowledged that his apology could not undo what he had done. However, he expressed hope that his family would be able to heal its wounds and said that he wanted, over time, to regain its trust. At the same time, he apologised to Nvidia’s employees, board of directors, partners and shareholders.

The investigation into a possible foreign intelligence link

The affair took on much broader dimensions following reports that Alice Huang, then a senior executive at a Singapore-based data centre company that works with Nvidia, may have provided information to Chinese intelligence services during the period in which she was in a relationship with Jensen Huang.

Nvidia announced on Sunday that its board of directors was launching an independent investigation into reports that its CEO had been targeted by a foreign intelligence operation. A committee of independent board members, assisted by external legal advisers, will examine all available evidence.

The company clarified that, so far, it had no reason to believe that confidential Nvidia data had been compromised or that US national security had been put at risk. Huang has said that he fully supports the investigation and will cooperate with it.

The revelations have also reignited questions about Huang’s stance on US restrictions on exports of advanced artificial intelligence chips to China and Nvidia’s efforts to prevent its products from reaching the country through third countries.

Donald Trump said on Sunday that he believes Huang should remain in his position as CEO.

A company without a clear number two

Nvidia stands out among technology giants for its unusually flat management structure and its relatively small workforce compared with its size.

Huang has no clear deputy or obvious successor and continues to personally oversee an exceptionally large part of the company’s operations.

At the same time, however, he has entrusted increasing responsibilities to the next generation of his family.

Nvidia, which he co-founded in 1993, has grown into one of the world’s most valuable companies, with a market capitalisation exceeding $4 trillion.

His daughter Madison and Omniverse

His daughter, Madison Huang, has worked at Nvidia for years and has spent much of her career in Omniverse, the software business considered important to the company’s efforts to expand beyond hardware.

According to people familiar with the company’s operations, she frequently accompanies her father on business trips and belongs to a small group of executives informally known as “The Band”, which travels with him and, among other things, helps prepare his public appearances.

Her professional path has not been the typical one for a Silicon Valley executive. She studied at the Culinary Institute of America and Le Cordon Bleu and also worked for French luxury goods group LVMH before turning to technology.

Spencer: From cocktail bar to robotics

Huang’s son, Spencer, works in Nvidia’s robotics division and is described by employees as being more low-key than his sister.

His own path has also been unconventional. He moved to Taipei, where he opened a popular cocktail bar, before returning to his studies and earning an MBA from New York University.

According to Nvidia’s official corporate filings, Spencer’s total compensation for the 2026 financial year amounted to approximately $1.32 million, while Madison’s stood at approximately $1.23 million. The company says their pay was determined according to standard practices for employees in comparable roles with similar qualifications, without their father’s involvement in the process.

His son-in-law is also an Nvidia vice-president

Madison’s husband, Nico Caprez, now also works at Nvidia. He met his wife when the two were studying at a business school in London.

A former alpine ski athlete, Caprez joined Nvidia in 2024 in a corporate development role and was promoted to vice-president in January.

Today, he is among the key executives managing Nvidia’s relationships with emerging cloud service providers, as well as the company’s strategy for providing financial guarantees to customers.

The family’s presence and the Opera gala

Madison and Caprez, who recently married, attended a gala hosted by Huang last week to support the San Francisco Opera, in the presence of a number of leading figures from the artificial intelligence industry.

In his toast, Nvidia’s CEO made particular mention of his daughter, thanking her for the personal touches she had added to the event.

Lori Huang and a marriage spanning more than 40 years

Jensen and Lori Huang met while studying at Oregon State University. He was 17 and she was 19.

Huang has recounted during a public discussion that he told her that if she studied with him every week, he would receive top marks in all his classes. “So, I had a date every Sunday,” he joked.

He also promised her that he would be the chief executive of a company by the time he turned 30.

Lori frequently accompanies her husband to events and is the president of the family’s charitable foundation, whose assets amount to approximately $9 billion.

According to a person who heard Huang’s recent remarks to senior executives, Nvidia’s CEO said that since they got married, his wife has taken care of almost everything for him, from signing documents to managing their finances. He even joked that he does not know his own home address and does not pay his own bills.

His dream of one day having one of his children take over

When Huang founded Nvidia in 1993, he was already a father. He and his wife raised their children in San Jose before later moving to Los Altos Hills.

Madison and Spencer effectively grew up alongside Nvidia, attending company events from an early age, including the annual GTC conference.

When his children were still young, Huang confided to a close family friend that it would be his dream for one of them to one day take over Nvidia.

At a staff gathering, he also argued that parents would not recommend their children for a position at the company unless they believed they had the necessary qualifications, while joking that sometimes “employees’ children do better than their parents”.