The Chinese businessman who introduced Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to Alice Huang was her longtime partner and reported husband, Kang Wei, according to people familiar with the couple cited by The Wall Street Journal.
Kang, a Shanghai private-equity operator then in his early 50s, had known Jensen Huang for roughly a decade through investments in video-game companies. Those deals connected him to Nvidia during the years when the company’s graphics chips were still driven mainly by gaming demand. A person who worked at one of Kang’s portfolio companies said Kang helped arrange an early meeting between the two men in Asia.
For about two years after the introduction, Kang appeared to accept the growing closeness between his wife and the Nvidia chief. He spoke openly about it to associates and at times described Alice Huang, half-jokingly, as Jensen Huang’s “personal assistant,” the Journal reported.
Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, was born in a rural area of China’s Hunan province. Some local sources and school records place her birth year around 1977. She trained briefly in nursing, worked informally at Hunan Television and state broadcaster CCTV, then moved to Hong Kong in the mid-2000s for a master’s degree in media management at Hong Kong Baptist University. She later obtained Hong Kong permanent residency.
She entered finance with junior roles at HSBC’s private bank in Hong Kong and at CITIC Securities. In November 2015 she joined Shanghai Hexi Investment Management, the private-equity firm Kang had founded in 2010. Corporate records show the ownership was reshuffled just before her arrival: Kang held about 48.75 percent, another partner Zhu Xiaoming held 26.25 percent, and Alice Huang received a 25 percent stake transferred from Kang and held through a consulting vehicle. She became a core shareholder, deputy general manager, executive director and member of the investment decision committee.
After Zhu left the firm in 2017 following disputes over profit splits, Kang and Alice Huang effectively ran Hexi together. Associates in Chinese financial circles regarded them as a husband-and-wife team. The firm’s name translates roughly as “harmonious prosperity.” They hosted potential investors at a historic colonial-era building in Shanghai that had once belonged to a prominent businessman.
Kang had earlier been a rising star in China’s mutual-fund industry, taking charge of Zhonghai Fund at age 32 and earning a reputation as one of the country’s youngest fund-company chiefs. Chinese securities regulators later fined him and Hexi for undisclosed stakes and restricted-period trading, including a 2018 penalty of 17.7 million yuan against the firm and 400,000 yuan against Kang, with further action in 2025. Shanghai police detained him around the Lunar New Year period in early 2026 on suspicion of stock-market manipulation, according to Chinese reporting.
People familiar with their dealings said Kang and Alice Huang used personal connections, including Alice’s access to Jensen Huang, to support fundraising and deal-making across China, Singapore, Taiwan and elsewhere. In 2023 Alice Huang took a senior role at Singapore-based Megaspeed International, a data-centre firm that became a significant buyer of Nvidia AI chips. U.S. Commerce Department and later Justice Department investigators examined whether Megaspeed helped divert restricted chips, while Singapore authorities questioned Alice Huang in 2025.
Jensen Huang acknowledged in a Nov. 8 letter to Nvidia employees that he had been unfaithful to his wife. The company’s board opened an independent review. U.S. officials have examined whether Alice Huang acted as a Chinese intelligence asset, a claim Beijing has rejected as groundless. Neither Alice Huang nor Kang Wei has publicly commented on the reports.
The exact date of the introduction, the precise start of any romantic relationship, and the full scope of any business or information-sharing remain subjects of continuing official and journalistic inquiry.
