#英伟达临时ceo是制衡黄仁勋重要力量
Nvidia’s “interim CEO” is Colette Kress, who has been the company’s CFO for 13 years. She joined Nvidia in September 2013 as executive vice president and chief financial officer. She previously worked in finance at Microsoft and Cisco, and is a veteran Silicon Valley finance executive. She got the job purely because Huang suddenly resigned amid an affair and an espionage scandal, and the board brought her in at short notice to steady the ship.
The push and pull of interests behind the scenes is pretty subtle: Huang used to privately look down on her, once saying in public that she was like a “deer caught in the headlights,” and thinking she only knew how to report the numbers and didn’t understand strategy. Nvidia also has a landmine: an aggressive backstop financing plan led by Huang’s son-in-law. Kress questioned the risks at the time, and now that she’s in this position, she’ll have to take over a project she never really agreed with in the first place.
Whether she can hold on to the job depends on how things unfold. The board says it has “complete confidence” in her, but its actions speak louder than words: it has simultaneously launched a search for a permanent CEO from outside the company. The market consensus is much the same: she’s seen as a capable “interim helmswoman,” while Nvidia ultimately wants someone with an engineering background at the helm. So she’ll most likely be a “firefighter,” and making the role permanent won’t be easy.
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Nvidia’s “interim CEO” is Colette Kress, who has been the company’s CFO for 13 years. She joined Nvidia in September 2013 as executive vice president and chief financial officer. She previously worked in finance at Microsoft and Cisco, and is a veteran Silicon Valley finance executive. She got the job purely because Huang suddenly resigned amid an affair and an espionage scandal, and the board brought her in at short notice to steady the ship.
The push and pull of interests behind the scenes is pretty subtle: Huang used to privately look down on her, once saying in public that she was like a “deer caught in the headlights,” and thinking she only knew how to report the numbers and didn’t understand strategy. Nvidia also has a landmine: an aggressive backstop financing plan led by Huang’s son-in-law. Kress questioned the risks at the time, and now that she’s in this position, she’ll have to take over a project she never really agreed with in the first place.
Whether she can hold on to the job depends on how things unfold. The board says it has “complete confidence” in her, but its actions speak louder than words: it has simultaneously launched a search for a permanent CEO from outside the company. The market consensus is much the same: she’s seen as a capable “interim helmswoman,” while Nvidia ultimately wants someone with an engineering background at the helm. So she’ll most likely be a “firefighter,” and making the role permanent won’t be easy.
$NVDAB