Nvidia Names CFO Colette Kress Interim CEO After Jensen Huang Resigns Amid Affair Reports

Nvidia named chief financial officer Colette Kress interim CEO on Thursday after co-founder Jensen Huang, who led the company for 33 years, resigned abruptly amid reports of extramarital relationships. The reports describe an affair with an alleged Chinese spy and another relationship with one of Huang's own reports, described as a company executive. Nvidia said in a statement that Kress, 59, will keep her roles as CFO and executive vice president while the company searches for a permanent replacement. She joined in September 2013 after nearly 25 years in finance roles at technology companies, including a brief stint at Cisco and 13 years at Microsoft, where she spent four years as CFO of the Server and Tools division. In a press release, Kress said Nvidia would keep advancing accelerated computing and AI and serve its customers, partners, developers and shareholders. In an email to staff, she acknowledged an extraordinarily difficult period for the company.

NBC News, on the left, frames the story as a profile of Kress. It stresses her 13 years helping turn Nvidia from a graphics-chip maker into an AI powerhouse, and it quotes her press release, her staff email and a former Cisco colleague who vouches for her leadership. It mentions Huang's relationships in a single sentence. The right-leaning New York Post also profiles her, but its opening sentence ties the resignation to the affair with an alleged Chinese spy. It adds her age, her retained titles, her Microsoft career, a 2023 Globes interview about her sons urging her to join, and analyst comments to Reuters on an earlier CFO change. Fox News puts the scandal first, headlining the resignation after "affair scandals" and naming both relationships, with Kress as a secondary detail. Both sides report the same core facts; they differ in whether Kress's record or Huang's conduct comes first. NewsNation's brief item adds no distinct angle.