Outsiders had little reason to notice when Nvidia\u2019s longtime chief security officer and head of product security stepped down in August. Just two and a half months later, CEO Jensen Huang himself left the company over growing questions about his extramarital relationships \u2014 starting with an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore data center company that U.S. investigators suspect of funneling Nvidia chips to China, then widening to reports about two separate affairs with Nvidia employees.<\/p>\n
At the time, David Reber, who spent four years as CSO and seven at Nvidia overall, said he was leaving for health reasons. \u201cThis wasn\u2019t a pivot I had planned. But I know what needs to come first: family and health,\u201d he wrote on LinkedIn in late August, disclosing that he\u2019d been diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson\u2019s more than two years ago. <\/p>\n
Reber\u2019s replacement, Sa\u0161a Zdjelar, previously spent 17 years at ExxonMobil in Houston, leaving as a senior IT manager before spending one year at Salesforce and several years at the cybersecurity company ReversingLabs. Zdjelar didn\u2019t respond to questions Thursday about the transition or what the security team knew.<\/p>\n
Nothing public connects Reber\u2019s or Zdjelar\u2019s role changes to the Megaspeed matter,<\/p>\n