A Chinese female executive who has "close contacts" with Huida CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has been accused of being a spy for Beijing. Further investigation by the US media revealed that her resume is quite astonishing. She is said to have worked for a well-known Chinese TV station and an international bank, but some of her work experience has not been confirmed.
The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence officials alleged that the woman, Huang Le (also known as Alice Huang), developed a close relationship with Huang while passing information to the Chinese Communist Party.
An online resume lists her extraordinary career experience: from Hunan TV, CCTV, HSBC, and CITIC Securities to the lucrative Shanghai Hexi Investment Management Company.
From all accounts, Huang Le appears to be a successful female entrepreneur and has not yet been formally charged with any wrongdoing. She is not related to Jen-Hsun Huang. Although the New York Times described the two as "in close contact," it admitted that it was unable to confirm the extent of their relationship.
An NVIDIA spokesperson told the New York Post: "There was nothing unusual or unexpected about Jen-Hsun Huang's interactions with Ms. Huang. Meeting with customers is part of a CEO's job; Jen-Hsun Huang meets with thousands of senior customer executives every year."
According to the New York Times, Huang Le once helped run Megaspeed, a little-known Singaporean chip company. Its Malaysian sister company purchased at least US$4.8 billion in Huida equipment between June 2024 and February this year.
Her resume before this gives a glimpse into her amazing business experience.
In the Chinese private equity fund database "Private Equity Pai Pai Network", a photo of a smiling woman wearing a red dress is labeled "Shanghai Hexi Investment Huang Le - Fund Manager", and her resume states that she is also an executive director. She matches the woman in Huang's photo.
Her resume lists 4 years of media and 8 years of experience in the securities industry. She has served as a news reporter for Hunan Satellite TV and CCTV, assistant to the president of HSBC Private Banking Department, and vice president of securities business of CITIC Securities.
However, an unnamed Hunan Satellite TV executive told the New York Post: "I have never heard of her." The New York Post could not find information about a reporter named Huang Le on the websites of Hunan Satellite TV and CCTV.
Megaspeed was originally the Singapore branch of the Chinese online game company "7Road". Part of 7Road's equity is held by China's central and local governments. According to reports last year, Shanghai Hexi, where Huang Le worked, had invested in Seventh Avenue.
Neither HSBC nor CITIC Securities responded to the New York Post's request for comment; Shanghai Hexi also did not respond to the New York Post's interview invitation.
Because Megaspeed is not a Chinese company, it has access to Huida's most advanced chips worth millions of dollars. However, multiple reports pointed out that Megaspeed leased computing power to Alibaba and other Chinese companies, causing controversy.
Bloomberg News reported that Megaspeed had imported about 136,000 Huida graphics processing units (GPUs) as of November last year, but Huida inspectors only found thousands of the latest chips in its data centers, raising questions about where the rest of the chips were going.
The U.S. Department of Commerce investigated whether Megaspeed helped smuggle chips into China and handed the findings to the Justice Department this year. Singaporean authorities interviewed Huang Le last year and then let her go without charging her.
Megaspeed told the New York Times that it has appointed outside lawyers to investigate; the company did not respond to the New York Post's request for comment, and the New York Post was unable to contact Huang Le.
At the same time, China’s censorship mechanism has been activated.
DeepSeek, China's top artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, declined to answer questions about Huang Le. When the New York Post asked whether Shanghai Hexi's fund managers were Megaspeed executives, it responded: "Sorry, this is beyond the scope of my current answer. Let's change the subject."
