Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hired prominent crisis communications PR firm Heller — best known for handling high-profile public scandals — at least a year before admitting to an extramarital affair with a suspected Chinese spy.
According to a WIRED report, Jensen has been working with Heller since October 2025, over 12 months before he admitted to cheating on his wife of over 40 years with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang.
Two sources told the publication that since then, Heller has been handling Huang’s behind-the-scenes communications.
The crisis communications firm, founded by Risa Heller, is known for managing high-profile personal scandals and sexual misconduct controversies, and has represented the likes of Anthony Weiner and Mario Batali.
WIRED reported that Heller was first brought on to handle Huang’s personal life, including his family’s charitable work.
Sources told the publication the firm was in frequent contact with Huang and his daughter Madison, a product marketing director at Nvidia, whose profile within the company has grown. It’s unknown if Heller’s initial work with Jensen involved his affair.
The Post has contacted Heller for comment.
After confessing to his extramarital affair, Jensen’s $4.5 trillion company launched a probe into whether the CEO was a “target of a foreign intelligence effort,” maintaining they still had confidence in his leadership.
Alice, an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based tech company that purchased billions in AI chips from Nvidia, was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), Beijing’s spy agency, according to a secret months-old memo from the US State Department, based on electronic surveillance of her, according to the New York Times.
