Interim Nvidia CEO Colette Kress Has Tried to Tame Nvidia’s Riskiest Bets
Nvidia’s appointment Thursday of its longtime chief financial officer Colette Kress as interim CEO will force the finance veteran to guide the business through a fraught storm of uncertainty created by the sudden resignation of former CEO Jensen Huang. Kress, 59, joined Nvidia in 2013, when the business was a humble supplier of chips for gamers. And while she has played an important role in guiding the company’s ascendance to an all-important place in the AI economy, she wasn’t someone who...