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Who is Collette Kress, NVIDIA's interim CEO?

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Who is Collette Kress, NVIDIA's interim CEO?

Kress spent 25 years in various finance roles before joining NVIDIA in 2013

After 33 years as the chief executive officer of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang has resigned from the AI and gaming giant he founded. On Thursday morning, the company's board of director announced Colette Kress, NVIDIA's current executive vice president and chief financial officer, as Huang's temporary replacement.

"The Board has full confidence in Colette and the leadership team, and we expect the company's operations, customer commitments and product roadmap to continue without interruption," newly-minted NVIDIA board chair Harvey Jones said in a release announcing Thursday's news.

Kress is a relative unknown, but is taking lead of NVIDIA at tumultuous time in the company's history. Huang departure comes days after NVIDIA's board said it would investigate Huang after he admitted to having an affair with a former tech executive accused of being a Chinese intelligence asset. The New York Times later reported that Huang had also had an affair with an NVIDIA executive who reported to him. Before the revelations, the company did not have a succession plan in place. And for at least the immediate future, it's now on Kress to lead the company. Here's what we know about the executive.

Kress worked at three companies before joining NVIDIA. She first spent eight years in finance roles at Texas Instruments before joining Microsoft in 1997. In 2006, six years after Steve Ballmer took over as Microsoft's CEO, she became the chief financial officer of the company's Server and Tools division.


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