WSJ: Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO with immediate effect, CFO Kress interim CEO
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-11-12
Per WSJ (single-source, treat as unverified): Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia's CEO and left its board with immediate effect, ending more than 33 years running the company. CFO Colette Kress, 59, becomes interim CEO while keeping her finance role; director Harvey Jones becomes Nvidia's first-ever board chair.
The exit reportedly came 3 days after the board opened an outside probe into reports that Huang was a foreign intelligence target. Kress previously held finance roles at Cisco, Microsoft, and Texas Instruments, and has recently defended Nvidia's customer backstops against circular-financing charges.
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