Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO, Colette Kress becomes interim CEO
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On November 12, the Nvidia board announced that co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang has resigned as president, chief executive officer and board member, effective immediately. CFO Colette Kress becomes interim CEO while continuing as executive vice president and chief financial officer, and the board has begun a formal CEO search that will consider both internal and external candidates. The company also appointed Harvey C. Jones, a director since 1993, as its first-ever board chair, and he expressed the board's support for the interim CEO and management team. Nvidia will report financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2027 on November 17 Pacific Time as originally scheduled. The article also reviews Jensen Huang's 33-year tenure, from co-founding Nvidia in 1993, launching the GeForce 256 in 1999 and releasing CUDA in 2007, to delivering the first DGX-1 to OpenAI in 2016, leading the company from a graphics chip maker to a leader in AI computing.
The article relays Nvidia's announcement and reviews Jensen Huang's 33-year tenure from graphics chips to a leader in AI computing, providing background for understanding this management change.