Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Runs World's Most Valuable Firm With 36 Direct Reports

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had 36 direct reports as of October 2025, according to an internal list obtained by Business Insider — a deliberate flattening at the world's most valuable company, and one that has shrunk from the 55 reports Huang described at Stanford in March 2024.

The list, whose authenticity reflects senior and executive vice presidents across Nvidia's key organizations, offers a rare view of the inner circle atop the AI-chip giant. Two names on it have since left the company: Jay Puri, formerly EVP of worldwide field operations, and Laura Fay, VP of enterprise marketing, corporate communications, and global events, who retired after a decade. Nvidia's workforce has grown massively in recent years thanks to the AI boom, and Huang's notoriously fierce work ethic has helped shape its hardcore culture. A Nvidia spokesperson declined to comment.

Why does Huang want so many direct reports?

"The more direct reports the CEO has, the less layers are in the company," Huang said at The New York Times DealBook Summit in 2023. "It allows us to keep information fluid, allows us to make sure that everyone is empowered by information."

He takes the philosophy further than most. At Stanford, Huang said he does not schedule one-on-one meetings with direct reports, so that information spreads more easily through the organization — unless a meeting is requested, in which case he will "drop everything." He also said many of his direct reports were paid the same amount.

What does this change for a manager or executive candidate? At Nvidia, a large span of control signals that senior leaders carry broad mandates with direct CEO access, not narrow portfolios buffered by layers of management.

Who reports to Huang?

The list includes 36 leaders spanning engineering, networking, AI software, and corporate functions:

• Technical leadership: CTO Michael Kagan, chief scientist Bill Dally, and Ian Buck, VP of hyperscale and high-performance computing and architect of Nvidia's breakthrough CUDA software platform.
• Finance, operations, and legal: CFO Colette Kress (EVP), EVP of operations Debora Shoquist, and Tim Teter, EVP, general counsel, and secretary.
• Engineering depth: Jonah Alben (SVP, GPU engineering), Eyal Babish (SVP, hardware engineering), Dwight Diercks (SVP, software engineering), Arjun Prabhu (VP, GPU ASIC engineering), and Sameer Halepete (VP, VLSI engineering).
• AI and product: Justin Boitano (VP, enterprise AI), Kari Briski (VP, generative AI software for enterprise), Rev Lebaredian (VP, Omniverse and simulation), Charlie Boyle (VP, DGX Systems), and Alexis Bjorlin (VP and GM, DGX Cloud).
• Networking: Kevin Deierling and Gilad Shainer (both SVPs of networking), Dror Goldenberg (SVP, network software architecture), and Amit Krig (SVP, software and NIC product line).
• Other units: Jeff Fisher (SVP, GeForce), Deepu Talla (VP, mobile business unit), Ronnie Vasishta (SVP, telecom), Xinzhou Wu (VP, automotive), Joseph Greco (SVP, advanced technology group), John Spitzer (VP, developer and performance technology), and Howard Wright (VP, Nvidia Inception).
• Corporate functions: Kristin Major (SVP, head of HR), Sonu Nayyar (SVP and CIO), Mylene Mangalindan and Patrick Whitgrove (communications), Edie Fischer (CEA), and cofounder Chris Malachowsky.

How does that compare with other tech CEOs?

Huang's span remains unusually wide. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he prefers not to have too many direct reports and instead runs the company through a "core army" of 30 lieutenants — not all managed directly. Elon Musk had 19 direct reports at Tesla as of August and five at xAI.

It is unknown whether Huang's smaller fleet of 36 reports signals a durable shift away from his horizontal structure or simply reflects executive departures. With Nvidia's leadership bench under continued scrutiny as the company scales, the next internal snapshot will show whether the flattest org chart in big tech is holding its shape.