{"id":51923,"date":"2026-11-13T00:22:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T05:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/2026\/11\/13\/who-is-nvidia-interim-ceo-colette-kress\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T00:22:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T05:22:44","slug":"who-is-nvidia-interim-ceo-colette-kress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/2026\/11\/13\/who-is-nvidia-interim-ceo-colette-kress\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Nvidia interim CEO Colette Kress?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nvidia finance chief Colette Kress is set to take over as interim CEO from Jensen Huang, the company said today, putting her in charge of the chipmaker whose processors power the world’s most \u2060advanced super computers and AI data centres.<\/p>\n

The appointment comes after the board ousted co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang amid reports of two extra marital affairs, one with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy.<\/p>\n

Here are five facts about Kress:<\/p>\n

CFO since 2013<\/h3>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Nvidia’s revenue was $4.13 billion in the fiscal year she joined and $215.9 billion in fiscal 2026.<\/p>\n

Career before Nvidia<\/h3>\n

Before Nvidia, Kress spent eight \u2060years 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.<\/p>\n

She moved to Cisco in 2010 as senior vice president and chief financial officer of its Business Technology and Operations \u200cFinance organisation, where she was responsible for financial strategy and business development. She left for Nvidiai n 2013.<\/p>\n

Education and experience<\/h3>\n

Kress holds a bachelor of \u2060science degree in finance from the University of Arizona and a master of business administration degree \u200cfrom Southern Methodist University, according to Nvidia’s annual report filed with the US \u2060Securities and \u200cExchange Commission.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Contract terms<\/h3>\n

Executive officers at \u2060Nvidia are employed at will and have no individual employment, severance or change-in-control agreements, according to the company’s \u2060proxy statement.<\/p>\n

Nvidiahas said in earlier filings that many of its peer companies offer such agreements.<\/p>\n

Regulatory filings show Kress’ pay includes restricted stock units, including a March 2026 award that vests over four years.<\/p>\n

Wealth<\/h3>\n

Forbes ranks Kress at number 32 on its 2026 list of America’s richest self-made women.<\/p>\n

Her shares in the chip firm were valued at roughly $750m, as of yesterday’s close, down \u200cfrom more than $1 billion at the stock’s peak last month.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nvidia finance chief Colette Kress is set to take over as interim CEO from Jensen Huang, the company said today, putting her in charge of the chipmaker whose processors power the world’s most \u2060advanced super computers and AI data centres. The appointment comes after the board ousted co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang amid reports of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}