How old is Kimberly Powell? Age and more about Nvidia exec amid Jensen Huang affair allegations

Ryan D'souza Thu, November 12, 2026 at 8:26 AM UTC

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How old is Kimberly Powell? Age and more about Nvidia exec amid Jensen Huang affair allegations ©Getty: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Holds Roundtable With South Korean AI And Robotics Startups

Kimberly Powell is Nvidia’s forty-eight-year-old vice president of healthcare. She has led the company’s medical AI division since 2017 and has been with the chip giant since 2008. This week, she made headlines for reasons that had nothing to do with AI.

As per a report shared by The New York Times on Nov. 11, 2026, Powell allegedly had an extramarital relationship with Jensen Huang, her direct superior and Nvidia’s CEO. The claim comes from five former company employees, none of whom agreed to be named. As per the same report, two of those sources described a San Jose, California hotel as the setting where the pair were allegedly filmed in an affectionate moment during one of the company’s March conferences. (The New York Times has stated it has not reviewed the footage itself.)

The report surfaced days after Huang, sixty-three years old, had already admitted to a separate extramarital affair. As per The New York Times, he had been romantically linked to Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, whom U.S. intelligence officials reportedly suspected of working for China, a situation which led Nvidia’s board to open an independent investigation.

(The espionage allegations against Alice Huang remain unverified at this stage and reflect a U.S. intelligence assessment, not a confirmed finding.)

Under Nvidia’s code of conduct, employees are reportedly directed to “avoid situations where our actions create conflict,” which the company lists as including personal relationships. The company also states that it promptly investigates reports of misconduct. Powell has been a fixture at Nvidia for more than seventeen years, overseeing platforms such as MONAI for medical imaging and BioNeMo for AI-driven drug discovery, alongside Parabricks for genomic analysis. Before joining the company, she worked in hardware engineering and product management at Planar Systems.

Rumors of Jensen Huang and Kimberly Powell relationship reportedly circulated inside Nvidia for years:

Jensen Huang at the launch of a new RTX Spark laptop at Xperion on Alexanderplatz - Source: Getty

Kimberly Powell had spoken at GTC, Nvidia’s annual developer conference in San Jose last March, where she took the stage to discuss how artificial intelligence could aid breakthroughs in healthcare and biology. Powell's presentation made use of cartoon illustrations of Huang. During the same event, Nvidia’s senior leadership had reportedly gathered at a nearby hotel for a series of meetings.

As per the report, Huang and Kimberly Powell were allegedly observed in an affectionate exchange at the hotel. A person who had been present reportedly recorded what they witnessed on their phone, as per three separate sources with knowledge of what occurred. Huang’s security team reportedly took notice, pulled the individual aside and approached them about signing a nondisclosure agreement.

When a New York Times reporter called Huang on Wednesday to ask about his relationship with Kimberly Powell, he said

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“I don’t think you should be talking to me directly.”

The call ended shortly after. The company chose not to issue a statement.

As per a report shared by CNBC, word of a relationship between Huang and Kimberly Powell had reportedly been making the rounds inside the company for years. A former Nvidia employee, who declined to be identified given the delicate nature of the subject, told CNBC that the speculation had grown partly because Kimberly Powell's professional history did not include formal training in medicine or the life sciences.

(The above reflects the account of a single anonymous source and carries no verification; it represents that individual’s perspective alone and not any conclusion reached by the publication.)

Nvidia’s shares reportedly fell more than nine percent in post-market trading after The Wall Street Journal published a report stating the board was weighing whether to remove Huang from the CEO role.

How Kimberly Powell cold-called Nvidia and ended up building its entire healthcare division:

Illustrations Photos Nvidia Opens An Independent Investigation Following Reports Concerning Jensen Huang - Source: Getty

Long before she became Nvidia’s most prominent healthcare voice, Powell was an electrical engineering student at Northeastern University with an internship at a medical imaging company. Working alongside radiologists, she watched their jobs shift with each upgrade in imaging equipment. The company, though, was building its own graphics cards to process imaging data. Powell spotted the problem and called Nvidia.

As per a report shared by Healthcare Brew, published in February 2026, Kimberly Powell reached out to ask whether she could make use of the company’s technology instead. The response she got changed the direction of her career entirely. As per the same report, Nvidia told her

“We have early evidence that healthcare is going to be a great user of this technology, but we don’t know how.”

They followed that with a question of their own, asking whether she would like to come on board and help them figure it out. She did.

Kimberly Powell sat down with Healthcare Brew at the JPM Healthcare Conference in San Francisco in January to look back on seventeen years of that work. She described the first phase as splitting across two fronts: accelerated computing for diagnostic imaging devices and molecular dynamic simulation, which she said remains one of the most important computational steps in drug discovery. Nvidia eventually moved beyond accelerating algorithms alone and began architecting full computing systems, including Holoscan and IGX, for the medical device space.

On what the next ten to fifteen years might bring, Powell told Healthcare Brew that physical AI is where things are headed, with Nvidia already working alongside GE Healthcare on making imaging more autonomous. She shared her vision plainly:

“Humans, instead of doing the task of just reading the image, are more thinking about patient needs and overseeing the process and really helping patients make decisions.”

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