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title: "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)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-some-nvidia-board-members-favor-naming-cfo-colette-kress-4badb16e
published: 2026-11-12T02:45:00.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# 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)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-12 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-some-nvidia-board-members-favor-naming-cfo-colette-kress-4badb16e

Semafor : 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 — Some members of Nvidia's board favor appointing Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress as interim CEO, according to people familiar with the matter.

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261111/p52#a261111p52)

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