According to Wired, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang hired a crisis communications firm, Heller Inc, at least a year before publicly admitting to an extramarital affair with a woman suspected of engaging in espionage activities for China. Heller Inc is known for handling such sexual scandals.

According to a 2023 interview with Heller Inc in New York Magazine, the founder Risa Heller has handled personal scandals and sexual misconduct allegations for several well-known men. Among the clients cited by Wired are former Congressman Anthony Weiner, renowned chef Mario Batali, and former New Yorker contributor Jeffrey Toobin.

Wired also reported that not long after The New York Times published an article in October 2025 about whether NVIDIA helped Chinese companies circumvent US chip export restrictions, NVIDIA's internal communication team was informed to cc Heller Inc in media inquiries involving Jensen Huang.

The New York Times reported that Megaspeed is a data center company with relatively low visibility at the time, headquartered in Singapore and associated with China, which has purchased nearly $2 billion worth of NVIDIA chips. The report also mentioned that Megaspeed's CEO, Alice Huang – the woman later linked to Jensen Huang – stood beside Jensen Huang at a NVIDIA customer event in Taipei.

Heller and NVIDIA did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

On Sunday, NVIDIA released a statement from Jensen Huang in which he admitted to having an extramarital affair with a former Megaspeed executive, without naming Alice Huang. NVIDIA's board of directors also announced the initiation of an independent investigation, stating that there were reports that Jensen Huang "has become a target of foreign intelligence operations."