"I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did." - J. H.
That’s what Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s founder and CEO, wrote to his employees on Sunday. That’s for sure the kind of email no leader, even no person, ever wants to write.
He admitted an affair with Alice Huang, a senior executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based Nvidia customer. U.S. intelligence agencies reportedly believe she was recruited by Chinese intelligence to learn about Nvidia’s AI chips and to influence the company’s export policies. Beijing denies it. Nvidia’s board has opened an independent investigation and says it has no reason to believe that national security or company secrets were compromised.
When I read those lines, my first thought was of his wife and family. This is a personal tragedy, and they’re living through it in front of the whole world. They deserve our compassion and their privacy.
Love and intimacy come up in my coaching conversations with senior leaders once in a while, with women and men alike. Some are married, some aren’t. It won’t surprise you to hear that executives are human, too.
Still, the bar for them is higher, and it has to be. Senior leaders ask people to trust them every day. Employees watch closely whether their leaders live by the ethics they preach, and they remember when the two don’t match. A board will ask about conflicts of interest and whether the CEO was fully honest, especially since Huang had earlier said there was nothing inappropriate about the relationship. The classic first denial.
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