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Nvidia\u2019s CEO and<\/span> cofounder Jensen Huang is officially out<\/a>, and longtime chief financial officer Colette Kress is in. The chipmaker\u2019s board of directors announced Thursday that Kress, who joined Nvidia in 2013, has been named interim CEO following Huang\u2019s resignation amid a scandal over his extramarital affair with a Chinese businesswoman believed by US officials to be an asset of China\u2019s Ministry of State Security.<\/p>\n

Harvey Jones, the newly appointed chair of Nvidia\u2019s board, said in a statement that Kress \u201chas helped lead Nvidia through a period of extraordinary growth and has a deep understanding of our business, customers, operations and financial position.\u201d He added that Kress will be supported by an \u201cexperienced leadership team\u201d and that the board has \u201cfull confidence\u201d in her.<\/p>\n

Kress was among the most obvious candidates to fill the void after Huang\u2019s departure, according to multiple tech executives and industry analysts who follow Nvidia closely, given her long tenure at the company, credibility on Wall Street and across the tech industry, and, perhaps most importantly, her deep familiarity with Nvidia\u2019s business and finances.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s extremely strong-willed, professional, and whip smart. She doesn\u2019t tolerate nonsense. She can be friendly and gracious, too,\u201d says a former Nvidia executive who spoke on the condition of anonymity. \u201cShe obviously has a keen sense for how Jensen thinks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cColette is the logical choice,\u201d says Patrick Moorhead, founder and chief analyst at Moor Insights & Strategies, who has tracked the chip industry for decades. \u201cShe has credibility with investors because she answers hard questions directly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moorhead says Kress has operated as much more than a \u201cnumbers\u201d CFO. \u201cIn my conversations with her, she goes deep on the product road map, from rack-scale systems to networking and software,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Nvidia\u2019s board said on Sunday it was launching an independent investigation into Huang\u2019s activities following a report by The New York Times that he had an affair with a woman named Alice Huang, who US officials suspected of being a Chinese intelligence asset. WIRED reported on Monday that Huang quietly hired<\/a> a crisis communications firm sometime last year to handle matters related to his personal life. By October of 2025, the firm was being looped in on all press inquiries involving Huang at Nvidia, around the same time The New York Times reported that US authorities were investigating whether a company linked to Alice Huang had helped Chinese firms evade US chip export controls through its subsidiaries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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