Interim CEO and Chief Financial Officer, NVIDIA
Colette Kress is the interim chief executive officer of NVIDIA, the company that designs graphics processors and accelerated computing systems used for AI. She is also NVIDIA's executive vice president and chief financial officer, a role she has held since 2013. Kress began her career in finance at Texas Instruments. She then spent 13 years at Microsoft. There she held senior roles in corporate planning and finance and served four years as chief financial officer of the Server and Tools division. She moved to Cisco, where for three years she was senior vice president and chief financial officer of the Business Technology and Operations Finance organization. In that role she was responsible for financial strategy, planning, reporting and business development across the company's business segments, engineering and operations. NVIDIA named Kress executive vice president and chief financial officer on September 16, 2013. She reported to Jensen Huang, then president and CEO. On November 11, 2026, the NVIDIA board accepted Huang's resignation and appointed Kress interim CEO. She keeps her finance roles while the board searches for a permanent CEO. On the same day the board named director Harvey C. Jones as its first chair. NVIDIA said the board will consider internal and external candidates for the permanent CEO role. The company also said it would report its results for the third quarter of fiscal 2027 on November 17, 2026, as planned. Kress signed the November 12, 2026 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as interim CEO, executive vice president and chief financial officer. Her tenure as chief financial officer covers the period in which NVIDIA grew from a graphics chip company into a large supplier of data center computing for AI. Colette Kress holds a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Arizona and an MBA from Southern Methodist University. Colette Kress was born in 1967 in the United States. NVIDIA's 2013 announcement gave her age as 46, and its 2026 filing gave it as 59. Before NVIDIA, Kress worked in finance at Texas Instruments, Microsoft and Cisco. At Cisco she was senior vice president and chief financial officer of Business Technology and Operations Finance. The NVIDIA board appointed Kress interim CEO on November 11, 2026, and the company announced it on November 12, 2026. Kress holds three roles at NVIDIA: interim chief executive officer, executive vice president, and chief financial officer. She will keep the finance roles until the board names a permanent CEO. Harvey C. Jones, a director since 1993, became the first chair of the NVIDIA board on November 11, 2026. Kress is known as NVIDIA's chief financial officer since 2013 and, from November 2026, its interim CEO. Last updated: 2026-11-14 This is an unofficial profile. Whoo compiled it from the public sources listed above. Colette Kress did not write or approve it. To correct or remove this page, write to [email protected]. Photo: SiliconANGLE theCUBE, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.Career timeline
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