Who could replace the departed Jensen Huang as Nvidia CEO?
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Summary
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia’s CEO amid allegations of extramarital affairs, and the company named CFO Colette Kress interim CEO. Nvidia’s board is searching for a permanent successor as the company remains central to the AI chip industry.Key Facts
- Colette Kress will serve as interim CEO and interim CFO until the board selects a permanent CEO.
- Nvidia’s board is considering both internal and external candidates for the permanent role.
- Kress joined Nvidia as CFO in 2013 after finance jobs at Texas Instruments, Microsoft and Cisco.
- Ian Buck, who leads Nvidia’s AI hardware and software work, is among the potential internal candidates.
- Rene Haas, CEO of Arm Holdings, previously worked at Nvidia for seven years.
- AMD CEO Lisa Su has also been named as a possible candidate; AMD competes directly with Nvidia.
- Nvidia makes chips used to train AI models and power companies including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
- Nvidia was valued at about $4 trillion in market capitalization.
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