---
title: "Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO, president, and board member; CFO Colette Kress will be interim CEO, as the board considers candidates; NVDA drops 5%+ (Nvidia Newsroom)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/jensen-huang-resigns-as-nvidia-ceo-president-and-board-member-cfo-d7d51297
published: 2026-11-12T13:53:14.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
---

# Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO, president, and board member; CFO Colette Kress will be interim CEO, as the board considers candidates; NVDA drops 5%+ (Nvidia Newsroom)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-12 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/jensen-huang-resigns-as-nvidia-ceo-president-and-board-member-cfo-d7d51297

Nvidia Newsroom : Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO, president, and board member; CFO Colette Kress will be interim CEO, as the board considers candidates; NVDA drops 5%+ — - Colette Kress, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Appointed Interim CEO — Harvey C. Jones Appointed First-Ever Chair of the Board

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261112/p26#a261112p26)

## Related on Frontier

- [Nvidia appoints ex-Synopsys CEO Harvey C. Jones as its first-ever board chair; the board's Jensen Huang exit press release does not include a quote from Huang (Hayden Field/The Verge)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/nvidia-appoints-ex-synopsys-ceo-harvey-c-jones-as-its-first-ever-board-a50e3378)
- [Sources: some Nvidia board members favor naming CFO Colette Kress interim CEO; an administration official says the board briefed the White House on its meeting (Semafor)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-some-nvidia-board-members-favor-naming-cfo-colette-kress-4badb16e)
- [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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/a-profile-of-interim-nvidia-ceo-colette-kress-who-joined-in-2013-after-34a6bd68)
- [Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO](https://frontiernewswire.com/stories/jensen-huang-resigns-as-nvidia-ceo)
- [Sources: Nvidia's board is preparing to oust Jensen Huang after he had two extramarital affairs; NVDA drops 9%+ after hours (Wall Street Journal)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-nvidias-board-is-preparing-to-oust-jensen-huang-after-he-had-1f5e932e)

---

[More Latest Signal](https://frontiernewswire.com/) · [Signals](https://frontiernewswire.com/verified-reporting)