Who is Colette Kress, the interim CEO replacing Jensen Huang at Nvidia

Nvidia CFO Colette Kress is serving as the company's interim chief executive while a search for a permanent successor continues. According to Channel News Asia, Kress has previously pushed back against Jensen Huang’s riskier bets regarding artificial intelligence.

Jensen Huang resigned as CEO on November 12 following a scandal involving alleged affairs. Hindustan Times - World News reports that Huang confessed to an extramarital affair in a memo on November 8, with reports indicating one affair was with Alice Huang, a Chinese executive at the Singaporean data-centre company Megaspeed. Hindustan Times - World News further notes that the company's board launched an investigation into whether Huang was the target of a foreign-intelligence effort.

Following the resignation, Huang faces an FBI probe and congressional hearings. Techmeme reports that Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott has called for Huang to testify in December regarding the Nvidia saga. President Donald Trump described Huang's departure as a "horrible thing" and "so sad to see happen."

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