SANTA CLARA, Calif. — In a seismic executive departure that sent shockwaves across the global technology industry and financial capital markets, Nvidia Corporation announced on Thursday that co-founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang has resigned from his leadership posts and stepped down from the company’s board of directors, effective immediately.
The abrupt exit brings an extraordinary conclusion to Huang’s 33-year tenure at the helm of the company he co-founded in 1993, during which he transformed Nvidia from a niche designer of video gaming graphic cards into the world’s most valuable enterprise silicon juggernaut and the indispensable engine of the global artificial intelligence revolution.
The company announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress, who has served as Nvidia’s chief financial architect since 2013, has been appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer. Kress will continue to maintain her operational responsibilities as CFO while overseeing day-to-day corporate operations during the transition. Concurrently, the board appointed veteran director Harvey C. Jones as the company’s first independent Chair of the Board, establishing a distinct corporate governance boundary between executive management and board oversight.
Huang’s departure followed weeks of intensifying scrutiny and an independent inquiry initiated by the board’s audit and governance committee regarding executive conduct disclosures and personal association allegations. In a formal corporate communication, the board confirmed it had engaged a premier international executive recruitment firm to conduct a comprehensive search for a permanent Chief Executive Officer, evaluating both distinguished internal business unit leaders and external enterprise technology executives.
Global equity and semiconductor markets reacted with intense early volatility. Nvidia shares experienced sharp fluctuations in after-hours and morning trading as institutional fund managers digested the loss of an executive whose visionary engineering bets on CUDA architecture, tensor-core processors, and hyperscale compute clusters created trillions of dollars in shareholder value. However, sell-side analysts quickly emphasized that Nvidia’s foundational product roadmaps—including its next-generation architecture deployments, sovereign AI partnerships, and enterprise software ecosystems—remain fully intact under veteran division leadership.
In an internal memorandum addressed to Nvidia’s global workforce, Interim CEO Colette Kress praised Huang’s pioneering vision while rallying employees behind the company’s operational execution. Kress underscored that customer demand for Nvidia’s accelerated computing platforms across cloud hyperscalers, national supercomputing laboratories, and enterprise data centers remains at record levels, pledging that the company’s operational focus will remain relentless throughout the governance transition.
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