FROM SHANGHAI FINANCE TO NVIDIA CHIPS
Alice Huang, reported by Chinese financial publication Caixin to be about 42 years old, previously worked in banking and investment management, according to Chinese fund industry records and an indexed profile on private fund database Simuwang, which also listed an earlier career in television journalism.
Before her involvement with Megaspeed, she held senior positions at Shanghai Hexi Investment Management, a Chinese investment firm.
Several posts on Hexi’s official WeChat account between 2016 and 2017 identified her as the firm’s deputy general manager, executive director and a member of its investment decision committee and said she had previously worked at HSBC’s private bank in Hong Kong and at CITIC Securities. HSBC and CITIC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A Hexi business card reviewed by Reuters identified Alice Huang as a partner and general manager, with an office in Shanghai’s Lujiazui financial district. At the Aurora Plaza address listed on the card, Reuters found offices undergoing extensive renovation, with no Hexi signage or staff present. Calls to a number on the card went unanswered, and an email address could not receive messages.
Huang became Megaspeed’s controlling shareholder in March 2023, according to Washington-based research group C4ADS, which reviewed corporate records. Incorporated in Singapore in 2015 as 7Road International, Megaspeed provides cloud-computing services and describes itself on its company website as an Nvidia business partner in the Asia-Pacific region.
Huang also served as a director and managing director of Megaspeed’s Indonesian subsidiary from March to November 2023, C4ADS said. Megaspeed did not respond to a request for comment.
At a party hosted by Taiwanese server manufacturer Gigabyte during the 2024 Computex technology trade show, Alice Huang and Jensen Huang were both present, according to a person who attended. A photograph posted on LinkedIn showed them seated next to each other.
Gigabyte, which makes AI servers using Nvidia chips, did not respond to a request for comment.
