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title: "A profile of interim Nvidia CEO Colette Kress, who joined in 2013 after working at Cisco and Microsoft; as CFO, Kress criticized US export controls on China (Adam Satariano/New York Times)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/a-profile-of-interim-nvidia-ceo-colette-kress-who-joined-in-2013-after-34a6bd68
published: 2026-11-12T14:30:02.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# A profile of interim Nvidia CEO Colette Kress, who joined in 2013 after working at Cisco and Microsoft; as CFO, Kress criticized US export controls on China (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-12 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/a-profile-of-interim-nvidia-ceo-colette-kress-who-joined-in-2013-after-34a6bd68

Adam Satariano / New York Times : A profile of interim Nvidia CEO Colette Kress, who joined in 2013 after working at Cisco and Microsoft; as CFO, Kress criticized US export controls on China — Ms. Kress, the company's chief financial officer, joined Nvidia in 2013. — Colette Kress, a longtime Nvidia executive …

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261112/p31#a261112p31)

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