Colette Kress , Nvidia’s longtime finance chief who has been named the company’s interim CEO following Jensen Huang’s resignation on Thursday, once described the chipmaker as the smallest company she had ever worked for.
“When I started at Nvidia, it was the smallest company that I’d ever worked for. Kress also spoke about the challenges of managing a rapidly growing company, particularly the need to transform existing processes and digitise manual operations. In a 2022 interview with Fortune, Kress spoke about joining Nvidia in September 2013 and how the company had changed since then. Kress has served as Nvidia’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since joining the company in September 2013. Before that, she spent nearly 25 years in finance roles at major technology companies, including Cisco, Microsoft and Texas Instruments. In a press note following her appointment, Kress said she was committed to building on the foundation laid by Jensen Huang over the past 33 years and continuing Nvidia’s work in accelerated computing and artificial intelligence.
It’s gotten quite large, but the focus is on how do you think about the future and make sure we’re ready for it to scale?” she said. She said Nvidia’s fast growth had made this a key priority for its finance organisation and other departments. (Also Read: Colette Kress, Nvidia finanace chief for over a decade, replaces Jensen Huang as interim CEO ) Nvidia’s board said it has initiated a search for a permanent CEO and will consider both internal and external candidates. “NVIDIA’s strength has always come from its people, and together with our leadership team, I am committed to building on the extraordinary foundation Jensen created over the last 33 years,” Kress said.
