Alice Huang's profile on Chinese private equity site lists journalist, finance roles — none confirmed

First met Jensen Huang in early 2024; China said to have recruited her after relationship came to light

Left Singapore's Megaspeed after serving as executive; sources say she is now in China

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Alice Huang, who faces allegations of being a Chinese spy, dine together at a restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan, in May last year. [Reuters]
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Alice Huang, who faces allegations of being a Chinese spy, dine together at a restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan, in May last year. [Reuters]

Attention has turned to Alice Huang — known in Chinese as Huang Le — after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang acknowledged an affair with her amid allegations that she is a Chinese spy.

According to the Wall Street Journal, The Times and other outlets, Alice Huang worked roughly two decades ago as a journalist for Chinese state broadcaster CCTV and regional network Hunan TV before moving into finance, where she reportedly held positions including director at HSBC, director at Shanghai Hexi Investment and vice president at state-owned conglomerate CITIC Group.

Those credentials have not been fully verified — they come from a profile posted on a Chinese private equity information site. The New York Post said it contacted Hunan TV but could not confirm her employment there, and found no record of her at CCTV either. Her reported stints at HSBC and CITIC Securities also remain unconfirmed.

Alice Huang later became an executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed International in early 2023. A Chinese national, she is said to have cultivated broad ties with senior figures in the semiconductor industry, aided by fluent English.

She is believed to have first met Jensen Huang at Nvidia's annual event in California in early 2024, and the two crossed paths again at Computex in Taipei later that year. After the event, a photo posted to a LinkedIn account showed Alice Huang seated beside Jensen Huang at a bar, wearing elaborate jewelry and drinking whiskey.

The following May, Jensen Huang was photographed kissing Alice Huang on the cheek outside a Chinese restaurant in Taipei before the two left together in the same car. Six months earlier, a New York-based research firm had raised concerns about the pair's uncomfortably close relationship, and US government officials drafted documents early this year describing the two as having an extramarital relationship.

While Alice Huang presented herself as an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore data center company, US intelligence authorities believe she was in fact an operative of China's Ministry of State Security. Singaporean and Taiwanese authorities believe Chinese intelligence recruited her after the close relationship with Jensen Huang came to light.

Her current whereabouts are unknown. Multiple people who were in contact with her earlier this year said she was in China at the time.

Alice Huang has left the company, though Megaspeed continues to operate. Its predecessor was Seven Road International, a gaming company that received backing from Chinese state investors. When a Singapore subsidiary was spun off under the Megaspeed name in 2023, ownership passed to Huang Le Limited, with Alice Huang said to have taken charge of management.

Megaspeed became Nvidia's largest customer in Southeast Asia. Since its founding in 2023, the company is said to have purchased at least $4.6 billion worth of Nvidia chips, raising concerns that it may have served as a channel for Chinese firms to circumvent US export controls on advanced semiconductors.


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