Meet Nvidia’s billionaire interim CEO, Colette Kress—she helped turn the chipmaker into a nearly $4 trillion giant and took home $16 million last year | Fortune0

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• November 12, 2026

Nvidia just named longtime chief financial officer Colette Kress as its interim chief executive officer on Thursday following the resignation of embattled leader Jensen Huang.  Kress, 59, wasn’t publicly positioned as Huang’s successor, and in a rare interview in 2022, Kress told Fortune that becoming a C-suite leader was never necessarily her career goal.  Rather,