Inside Jensen Huang's family ties at Nvidia

* Jensen Huang steps down as Nvidia CEO after 33 years.

* Attention shifts to family members holding senior roles.

* Children Madison and Spencer, and son-in-law hold posts.

Jensen Huang's 33-year stint at the helm of Nvidia ended on November 12, when the board announced that he had resigned as president, CEO and director, effective immediately. CFO Colette Kress is now interim CEO, and the board says it will consider both internal and external candidates for the permanent job. The exit came days after Huang admitted, in a memo to staff, to a relationship with a businesswoman whom US intelligence agencies reportedly suspect of spying for China. The board has launched an independent investigation and said it has no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised.

As Nvidia hunts for its next leader, attention is turning to three family members who hold senior posts at the company: His daughter, his son and his son-in-law. None is an executive officer, and Nvidia's 2026 proxy statement says neither of his children reports directly to him. Huang himself has said he would not hand the top job to his children, and that they would have to earn it.

Madison Huang, daughter

Madison, 35, is senior director of product and technical marketing for Nvidia's physical AI platforms: Omniverse, Cosmos, Isaac and the GR00T models for humanoid robots. She studied at the Culinary Institute of America, trained at Le Cordon Bleu in France and worked as a chef in New York and San Francisco, before spending nearly four years in marketing strategy at luxury group LVMH.

She then pursued an MBA at London Business School and completed an MIT course in AI. She interned in Nvidia's marketing department in the summer of 2020, then received a full-time offer and joined the company in enterprise marketing and strategy. She was promoted to senior director in March this year, earned about $1.23 million in financial year 2026, and often travels with her father to international conferences.

Spencer Huang, son

Spencer, 36, is director of product for robotics, overseeing robotics software, simulation and robot learning. Like his sister, he started out in hospitality. He studied marketing in Chicago and Mandarin in Taiwan. Spencer co-founded R&D Cocktail Lab in Taipei around 2014. He ran it for about seven years until it closed in 2021, reportedly holding weekly priority meetings modelled on his father's management style.

He then earned an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business in 2022, and joined Nvidia that July as a product manager on the Isaac Sim Cloud team. His pay rose to about $1.32 million in the financial year 2026, up from roughly $530,000 a year earlier, according to reports. The filing does not explain the increase.

Nico Caprez, son-in-law

Madison's husband, 35-year-old Caprez, grew up in Switzerland's Engadin Valley and raced super-G, slalom and downhill for his country before retiring in 2013. He moved into consulting at Boston Consulting Group in Zurich, and later worked at a Zurich asset manager. He met Madison at London Business School, and the couple married in Hawaii in September.

Caprez joined Nvidia in early 2024 as a corporate development manager. In January, he was promoted from director straight to vice president of global AI infrastructure growth, skipping the senior director rung. He co-leads Nvidia's Cloud partner programme, working with cloud providers and data-centre operators, and is credited with deals such as a credit-support agreement with Australia's Firmus covering roughly 170,000 Nvidia chips.

Beyond these three family members, Nvidia's 2026 proxy statement lists Lori Huang, Jensen's wife, as co-trustee of three family trusts that together held about 669 million Nvidia shares as of March 2026, including 528.5 million in the couple's living trust. She also sits on the board of the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation, whose assets reached $9.2 billion in 2024, according to its tax filings.