Who is Nvidia interim CEO Colette Kress?

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Chipmaker’s finance chief takes over from Jensen Huang, who resigned after reports of two extramarital affairs

Nvidia NVDA-Q finance chief Colette Kress is set to take over as interim CEO from Jensen Huang, the company said on Thursday, putting her in charge of the chipmaker whose processors power the world’s most advanced supercomputers and AI data centres.

The appointment comes after the board ousted co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang amid reports of two extramarital affairs, one with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy.

Kress joined Nvidia in September 2013 as executive vice-president and chief financial officer and has held the post since. She has appeared alongside Jensen Huang on the company’s quarterly earnings calls.

Nvidia’s revenue was US$4.13-billion in the fiscal year she joined and US$215.9-billion in fiscal 2026.

Before Nvidia, Kress spent eight years in finance roles at Texas Instruments, then worked at Microsoft from 1997 to 2010. At Microsoft, she became chief financial officer of the Server and Tools division in 2006, with responsibility for its financial strategy, planning and reporting.

She moved to Cisco in 2010 as senior vice-president and chief financial officer of its Business Technology and Operations Finance organization, where she was responsible for financial strategy and business development. She left for Nvidia in 2013.

Kress holds a bachelor of science degree in finance from the University of Arizona and a master of business administration degree from Southern Methodist University, according to Nvidia’s annual report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

She joined Nvidia after nearly 25 years in finance roles at major technology companies, Fortune reported in 2024. She told Fortune Nvidia was the smallest company she had worked for when she started there in 2013.

Executive officers at Nvidia are employed at will and have no individual employment, severance or change-in-control agreements, according to the company’s proxy statement. Nvidia has said in earlier filings that many of its peer companies offer such agreements.

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