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During 43 years in journalism, our Editor, Welshman Phil Parry noticed that it was often sex scandals which brought down senior figures, and this is now highlighted by the extraordinary reports that the boss of giant chipmaker Nvidia, Jensen Huang had TWO extramarital affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy, and has now resigned.
Why is it almost always about sex?!
Is it something to do with men (and it is usually men) being in positions of power so they are (or see themselves to be ) very attractive, or think they can behave in a bad way and get away with it?
A case in point might be the recent appalling Russell Brand case.
Now we see this yet again with the affair (pun intended) of Jensen Huang (although this is a million miles from what Brand did).
Mr Huang has now resigned as Nvidia Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and the decision leaves the Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry without its biggest champion.
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Colette Kress will take over as interim CEO while Nvidia looks for a permanent successor, the company declared.
Mr Huang, who co-founded Nvidia and is its fourth-largest investor with a stake of about 3.61 per cent, will not remain on the board.
Pressure has been mounting on Mr Huang in recent days after reports that the 63-year-old, who is married, had an affair with a Chinese businesswoman who US authorities suspect of spying for Beijing.
But that’s not the only one.
Mr Huang also had an affair with an executive who reports to him, the New York Times (NYT) reported yesterday.
Mr Huang and Ms Powell were seen being affectionate at a hotel in San Jose, California, during an Nvidia conference in March, according to the Times.
But this is only the latest example, because there have been any number of instances of people in power being brought low because they have a wandering eye.
Let’s look at just just two of them, and one was significant because it involved the Prime Minister (PM).
It ended around the time Mr Major was promoted to Chief Secretary to the Treasury in Margaret Thatcher’s government.
Documents were stolen from his solicitor’s office that revealed he had a brief affair with his secretary, Tricia Howard, some years earlier.
His wife, Jane, who had forgiven him already, said that they had been happily married for many years, and his opinion ratings actually went up in the wake of the scandal.
I doubt that Nvidia’s share price will increase in the same way after the revelations about Mr Huang.
The memories of Phil’s incredible decades long award-winning career in journalism (when stories about senior people being brought down by scandal, were always good copy), as he was gripped by the rare disabling condition Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), have been released in a major book ‘A GOOD STORY’. Order the book now!
