NVIDIA appoints CFO Colette Kress interim CEO after Jensen Huang resigns

NVIDIA's board announced that Jensen Huang resigned as president, chief executive officer and board member, effective immediately. The company named Colette Kress, its executive vice president and chief financial officer since 2013, as interim CEO while she continues as CFO. Harvey C. Jones, a former Synopsys CEO and executive chairman, was appointed as the company's first-ever chair of the board.

The source shows Kress has led NVIDIA's finance organization for more than a decade, joining in September 2013 after finance roles at Cisco and Microsoft. The board said it will search for a permanent successor from internal and external candidates. It also scheduled third-quarter fiscal 2027 results for November 17, with the earnings call at 2 p.m. PT as previously scheduled.

This leadership change puts financial operations and interim executive authority in one role, while creating a formal board chair for the first time. The board stated that operations, customer commitments and the product roadmap are expected to continue without interruption. That statement is the main governance signal available: continuity is being asserted during a transition that removes NVIDIA's chief executive for 33 years.

The source frames continuity as the priority: it keeps the earnings schedule, emphasizes customer commitments and product roadmap, and does not name a permanent successor. That makes the transition's practical stakes about governance stability during a period when NVIDIA supplies critical accelerated-computing and AI infrastructure across cloud, enterprise, research and developer ecosystems for customers, partners and investors and the broader AI supply chain.