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Who could replace Jensen Huang at Nvidia long-term? Here are the top contenders.

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Who could replace Jensen Huang at Nvidia long-term? Here are the top contenders.

After reports of multiple affairs, including one with an alleged Chinese spy, Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia.

With Huang's resignation from the chipmaking giant that he helped found, who will take the helm at Nvidia?

While Nvidia quickly announced an interim CEO in Colette Kress, there's a lot of speculation about who will take a more permanent role as head of one of the world's most valuable companies.

First up is Nvidia's longtime Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress, already a billionaire in her own right.

Kress technically has the CEO job right now, as Nvidia paired Huang's resignation announcement with the news that Kress would fill in as interim CEO. And, if she's able to right the ship and help Nvidia come out of Huang's scandals relatively unscathed, she's a favorite to take the position long-term, too.

Before being promoted to the interim CEO position, Kress has worked as the CFO at the company since 2013. She previously worked as CFO for divisions at Microsoft and Cisco. Nvidia's investors are familiar with her too from the company's quarterly earnings calls, so she may have the upper hand there too.

Kress may have the advantage of being the interim CEO, but Ian Buck seems to be the favorite amongst the speculators.

Like Kress, Buck would also be an internal choice for CEO. Buck has worked at Nvidia since 2004 and is currently the company's Vice President and General Manager of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing (HPC). 

In his role at Nvidia, Buck is responsible for the company's data center, cloud, and HPC product lines — all central to Nvidia's success amid the AI boom.


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