Jensen Huang Resigns as NVIDIA CEO, Effective Immediately: CFO Colette Kress Named Interim CEO as Board Launches Search

NVIDIA said in a Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on November 12, and in an accompanying announcement, that its board accepted the resignation of Jen-Hsun (Jensen) Huang as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors on November 11, effective immediately. Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Colette M. Kress will serve as interim Chief Executive Officer and will continue as CFO until a permanent successor has been named.

The board also appointed Harvey C. Jones as Chair of the Board, described in the announcement as NVIDIA's first-ever Chair. Jones, 73, has served on the board since 1993, has been Managing Partner of the private family office Square Wave Ventures since 2004, and previously served as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of Synopsys. The board is initiating a search for a permanent Chief Executive Officer and will consider internal and external candidates; no timeline was given.

Kress, 59, joined NVIDIA in September 2013 as CFO and has led its finance organization since then, after nearly 25 years in finance roles at technology companies including Cisco and Microsoft. Jones said Kress has helped lead NVIDIA through a period of extraordinary growth and that the board has full confidence in her and the leadership team, expecting operations, customer commitments and the product roadmap to continue without interruption. Kress said she is committed to building on the foundation Huang created over the last 33 years and to continuing the company's work in accelerated computing and super intelligence (SI).

Neither the 8-K nor the announcement gives a reason for Huang's resignation, and neither mentions any severance terms or a continuing advisory or emeritus role for him. The announcement said Huang's contributions to NVIDIA are profound and thanked him for his immeasurable contributions to the company and the industry. NVIDIA confirmed it will report its third-quarter fiscal 2027 results on Tuesday, November 17, as previously scheduled.

Huang co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 and had served as its CEO since. The board had announced on November 8 that it was initiating an independent investigation in light of reporting concerning Huang. GSM's newsroom previously wrote to NVIDIA's media department about this matter and had not received a formal reply as of publication; this report is based on the Form 8-K and its accompanying announcement, and GSM will continue to follow official developments.

Source: NVIDIA

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Photo: 图：英伟达创办人黄仁勋2026年4月30日在斯坦福大学（资料图）。Anderseidesvik 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang at Stanford University on April 30, 2026 (file photo). Photo by Anderseidesvik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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