Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang is the co-founder, president and chief executive officer of Nvidia, the American chip company, and a member of its board of directors. He is a Taiwan born American engineer and businessman, born on 17 February 1963 in Taipei.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. His career before Nvidia was in the semiconductor industry: he worked at Advanced Micro Devices from 1984 to 1985 and at LSI Logic from 1985 to 1993.

He co-founded Nvidia in 1993 with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem and has led it as chief executive ever since. Fortune named him Businessperson of the Year in 2017, and in 2019 the Harvard Business Review ranked him first among the world’s 100 best performing CEOs over the lifetime of their tenure.

He features in Nation in Shorts coverage from November 2026 of an investigation opened by the Nvidia board.

Sources: Nvidia, Wikipedia