Nvidia Turns to CFO Kress to Steady Ship After Jensen Huang Exit

Nvidia Turns to CFO Kress to Steady Ship After Jensen Huang Exit While Nvidia Corp.’s board hunts for someone to permanently replace founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang, it’s counting on Colette Kress — the company’s chief financial officer of 13 years and a longtime technology executive — to steady the ship. Kress joined Nvidia in 2013 as CFO and executive vice president, long before the generative AI boom turned the company’s graphics processing units, or GPUs, into the most sought-after chips and sent its stock soaring by more than 2,000%. In many ways, she is the polar opposite of her former boss: shunning the spotlight, interacting with the financial world at mostly organized events and noticeably careful about what she says — only recently playing a more active public role in public events such as earnings conference calls.