Three months ago, Jensen Huang cut off his CFO in front of Nvidia's top finance people and called her "a deer in the headlights." This week the board pushed him out, and now she's the one running the $4 trillion company. Her name is Colette Kress. In that same August meeting, Jensen also called her a "reporting CFO." In his view she was someone who reports the numbers but can't help set strategy or make the big calls. That's the knock on her, and it's worth taking seriously, because the board is having her keep the CFO job while she runs the whole company. Kress came over from Cisco in 2013, back when Nvidia did $4.13 billion a year in sales. Last fiscal year it did $215.9 billion. She's been the other voice on the earnings calls for that entire run, explaining Jensen's bets to Wall…Read original on X
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Nvidia's CFO Colette Kress runs the company as both CEO and CFO
The board's move after Jensen Huang's exit leaves one executive holding both top jobs at the $4 trillion chipmaker.
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