Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang is the co-founder, president, and CEO of NVIDIA Corporation, a position he has held since the company's founding in 1993. Under his three-decade leadership, NVIDIA evolved from a niche graphics chip maker for PC gaming into the world's most valuable semiconductor company and the essential infrastructure provider of the AI revolution. Huang's strategic vision — that parallel computing on GPUs would eventually surpass CPUs for general-purpose workloads — was contrarian for over a decade before being vindicated by the deep learning revolution. NVIDIA's CUDA platform, launched in 2006, created the software ecosystem that locked in developers and researchers, making NVIDIA GPUs the de facto standard for AI training and inference. The explosion of generative AI in 2023-2025 transformed NVIDIA's financial profile: data center revenue surged from $15 billion to over $100 billion annually as every major tech company, cloud provider and sovereign nation raced to build AI compute capacity. NVIDIA's H100 and Blackwell GPU architectures became the most sought-after technology products in the world, with multi-year backlogs. Born in Tainan, Taiwan, Huang immigrated to the United States as a child. He holds a BSEE from Oregon State University and an MSEE from Stanford. Known for his signature leather jacket and marathon GTC keynotes, Huang is recognized as one of the most consequential technology leaders of the 21st century, frequently compared to Steve Jobs for his product vision and showmanship.