Kimberly Powell

Kimberly Powell and Jensen Huang: affair report

On 11 November 2026, The New York Times reported that Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang had had an extramarital relationship with Powell, who reports to him. The reported affair is an allegation, not a confirmed company finding.

In the Times account, Powell did not immediately respond to a request for comment and Nvidia declined to provide a statement.

The Powell report followed separate coverage of Jensen Huang's relationship with Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, a Chinese businesswoman. On 8 November, the Associated Press reported that Huang had apologised to Nvidia employees for being unfaithful to his wife; his message did not name Alice Huang. Nvidia's board statement that day announced an independent investigation into reports of a foreign intelligence effort targeting him. The board said it had no reason to believe national security or Nvidia secrets had been compromised. That statement did not name Powell.

In a 12 November update, Reuters reported that Nvidia's board had been meeting the previous night to decide whether to remove Huang as chief executive. Nvidia did not immediately comment on the reported meeting. That report did not announce a decision to remove him.

Kimberly Powell: age, education and Nvidia role

• Role: Nvidia vice president of healthcare; also described in company presentations as vice president of healthcare and life sciences.
• Joined Nvidia: 2008; appointed healthcare vice president in 2017.
• Education: B.S. in electrical engineering, with a concentration in computer engineering, from Northeastern University.
• Age: reported as 48 in November 2026.
• Recognition: Fast Company AI 20 for 2025.
• Official social accounts: LinkedIn kpowell and X (Twitter) @kpowgerade.

Education and early career

Powell studied electrical engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. During a student internship at a medical imaging company, she worked with radiologists and saw how improved imaging equipment could help them examine patients. She later worked in engineering and product management for diagnostic display systems at Planar Systems. Her degree and early career are documented in her BIO speaker biography.

In a February 2026 interview with Healthcare Brew, Powell described contacting Nvidia because the imaging company she worked with was building its own graphics cards. She wanted to use Nvidia's technology; the company instead invited her to help develop its healthcare business.

Career at Nvidia

An electrical engineer by training, Powell helped establish Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs) as a computing platform for medical imaging equipment. She now works with hospitals, medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies and AI startups. Her public presentations cover the Clara and BioNeMo platforms, healthcare robotics and AI agents.

Powell joined Nvidia in 2008 to develop the use of GPUs in medical imaging instruments. GPUs can process many calculations in parallel, making them useful for turning large volumes of scanner data into images. In her Healthcare Brew interview, she identified imaging and molecular simulation as two early applications of Nvidia's accelerated computing in healthcare.

She subsequently led Nvidia's higher education and research business, NVIDIA AI Labs and NVIDIA Inception, its programme for startups. She became senior director of AI business development in 2016 and vice president of healthcare in 2017, according to reporting on her career. Nvidia's official author biography describes her responsibility for the hardware and software used across its worldwide healthcare business.

Clara, BioNeMo and healthcare AI

Powell's work covers several related areas of Nvidia's healthcare technology:

• Medical imaging and devices: Clara and Holoscan support developers building AI applications for medical instruments. In her November 2021 announcement of Clara Holoscan, Powell described a platform for processing streams of sensor data and running AI in real time, with applications including surgery and radiology.
• Biology and drug discovery: BioNeMo provides tools for developing and using AI models in biological and pharmaceutical research. Nvidia expanded the platform in January 2026, alongside work on AI-assisted laboratories. The January announcement describes tools for generating data and training and deploying models.
• AI agents and robotics: Powell has discussed software agents that assist healthcare work and physical AI that operates through devices or robots. In her 2026 Healthcare Brew interview, she described autonomous lung screening as a possible future use of this technology.

Healthcare partnerships in 2025 and 2026

Nvidia's healthcare partnerships illustrate the areas covered by Powell's business. They range from research software to the development of autonomous imaging equipment.

• January 2025: Nvidia announced work with IQVIA, Illumina and Mayo Clinic on clinical research workflows, genomics and digital pathology. Powell also outlined the IQVIA collaboration on Nvidia's blog.
• March 2025: GE HealthCare and Nvidia announced a collaboration on autonomous X-ray technology and ultrasound applications, expanding their existing imaging partnership.
• January 2026: Nvidia and Eli Lilly and Company announced a joint AI research laboratory, with plans to invest up to US$1 billion over five years. The companies' announcement describes BioNeMo as a central platform for the work. Nvidia also highlighted a collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific on autonomous laboratory infrastructure.
• October 2026: Siemens Healthineers and Nvidia announced exploratory work on AI-assisted adaptive radiotherapy. The 21 October announcement covers treatment planning, patient simulation and real-time processing of treatment data.

Speaking and recognition

Fast Company included Powell in its AI 20 for 2025. She represents Nvidia at healthcare and technology conferences and writes for its corporate blog. The Biotechnology Innovation Organization listed her for a main-stage conversation with the chief executive of Genentech at its June 2026 convention.

Official LinkedIn, X and Nvidia articles

Powell's listed accounts are LinkedIn: kpowell and X (Twitter): @kpowgerade. Her NVIDIA Blog author page collects her company articles. These links distinguish the Nvidia executive from other people with the same name. An account using her name or photograph alone is not evidence that it belongs to her.