Colette Kress will serve as interim CEO of Nvidia after Jensen Huang resigned Thursday following reports of two extramarital affairs, including one with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy.
Ms. Kress, the Santa Clara, California-based company’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, will keep her CFO role while she leads the computer chipmaking giant until its board names a permanent successor, according to Nvidia.
Mr. Huang’s resignation took effect immediately. He co-founded Nvidia in 1993 and had led it as CEO since its start.
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Ms. Kress has been Nvidia’s CFO since September 2013. Before joining the company, she spent nearly 25 years in technology finance roles, including as senior vice president and CFO of Cisco’s Business Technology and Operations Finance organization, 13 years at Microsoft and time at Texas Instruments.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Arizona and an master’s degree in business from Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business.
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