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Who is Colette Kress, Nvidia's new interim CEO?
With Jensen Huang gone, someone has to fill his boots. That's Kress, for the time being.
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Jensen Huang has resigned, and in his place is a familiar face for anyone that's listened to one of Nvidia's financial calls: it's the company's long-standing CFO, Colette Kress.
But you might be excused as a gamer for never hearing about her; an earnings call isn't everybody's cup of tea.
Colette Kress has been chief financial officer at Nvidia since 2013. That's 13 years sat alongside Jensen in calls with investors and financial institutions to discuss how the company is doing. Kress has been in the role for the record highs of recent years, and the not-so-record lows of others, like the price plummets of '25, '21, and '18.
Prior to her role at Nvidia, Kress was SVP and CFO at Cisco for a couple of years and Corporate VP at Microsoft for nearly five. She also worked at Texas Instruments—all the big hitters, then.
Generally, Kress has stayed out of any contentious issues with the company, only occassionally commenting on the big issues during earnings calls. Like when the RTX 30-series was out of stock everywhere thanks to cryptocurrency mining (the mining had an impact on the company's financials in a slightly contentious way, too).
Or ceaseless comments on the increasing demand for AI datacentre build out. That's of less interest to gamers, but what do you expect? Nvidia to talk about gaming GPUs in this day and age? It cannot be done.
In an email to employees in the wake of Jensen Huang's departure, Kress reportedly said (via Hadas Gold on X):
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