NVIDIA Names Colette Kress Interim CEO Following Huang’s Resignation

NVIDIA announced on November 12, 2026 that Jensen Huang had resigned as president, chief executive officer and director, effective immediately. The board appointed Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress as interim CEO and Harvey Jones as chair.

The board accepted Huang’s resignation and made both appointments on November 11, 2026, the date recorded in NVIDIA’s Form 8-K. Kress will remain executive vice president and CFO while serving as interim CEO until a permanent successor is named. The board is initiating a search that will consider internal and external candidates.

Long Tenures in Finance and on the Board

Kress, 59, joined NVIDIA in September 2013 and has served as executive vice president and CFO since then. Before NVIDIA, she spent nearly 25 years in finance roles at technology companies including Cisco and Microsoft. NVIDIA says she has led its finance organization and played a key role in the company’s growth and evolution.

Jones, 73, has served on NVIDIA’s board since 1993 and has been managing partner of Square Wave Ventures, a private family office, since 2004. NVIDIA describes him as its first-ever chair and as an entrepreneur, technology executive and venture investor with more than 30 years of experience, including service as CEO and executive chairman of Synopsys. His appointment gives a long-serving director formal responsibility for board leadership during the succession process.

Board Emphasizes Operational Continuity

Jones said the board expects operations, customer commitments and the product roadmap to continue without interruption. Its confidence rests on Kress’s understanding of NVIDIA’s business, customers, operations and financial position and on an experienced leadership team that has helped execute the company’s strategy and advance its technology roadmap.

Kress said NVIDIA’s strength comes from its people and pointed to the foundation Huang created over 33 years. “We will continue advancing the work that has made NVIDIA a leader in accelerated computing and AI, and execute on the opportunities ahead. Our focus remains on serving our customers, partners, developers and shareholders,” she said.

The continuity message connects succession to execution, extending beyond the chief executive office to customer commitments and the technology roadmap. The appointments also separate interim executive management from board leadership, with Kress responsible for the former and Jones for the latter.

Next Financial Checkpoint

NVIDIA said it will report third-quarter fiscal 2027 results on November 17, 2026 at approximately 1:20 p.m. Pacific Time, followed by its earnings call at 2 p.m., as previously scheduled. The announcement therefore keeps the next scheduled results release and call on their existing timetable.

The results release and call are the next scheduled earnings checkpoint after the leadership change. The immediate test of the transition is whether NVIDIA can deliver the operational and product continuity the board expects while Kress holds both the interim CEO and CFO roles and the permanent-CEO search remains open.