NVIDIA Says CEO Jensen Huang Has Resigned; CFO Colette Kress Named Interim CEO

November 12, 2026

NVIDIA announced on November 12, 2026, that its Board of Directors said Jensen Huang “has resigned as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board, effective immediately.” NVIDIA’s press release does not state a reason for the resignation.

The company said Colette Kress, its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, “has agreed to serve as Interim Chief Executive Officer” and will keep her CFO role until a permanent successor is named. The Board said it is starting a search and “will consider internal and external candidates.” The Board also appointed Harvey C. Jones as its first-ever Chair of the Board.

In a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, NVIDIA reported under Item 5.02 that on November 11, 2026, the Board “accepted the resignation of Jen-Hsun Huang, as NVIDIA’s President, Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board, effective immediately.” The filing gives the same succession details and does not give a reason. It lists Kress as age 59 and Jones as age 73, and says Jones has served on the Board since 1993.

NVIDIA said it will report third-quarter fiscal 2027 results on Tuesday, November 17, at about 1:20 p.m. PT (3:20 p.m. CT), as previously scheduled.

Background in NVIDIA’s own statements

On November 8, 2026, the Board said it was starting an independent investigation “in light of recent reporting that founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort,” and said it had “no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised.” The same day, NVIDIA published an employee message in which Huang wrote, “I was unfaithful to my wife,” and said he supported the investigation. On November 10, 2026, the independent directors said they had retained former acting U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim and the firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to conduct it.

NVIDIA’s resignation announcement does not mention the investigation, its status, or any findings. The investigation’s outcome has not been made public.

What is reported but not confirmed by NVIDIA

NBC News, citing The New York Times, reported that Huang also had a relationship with a married company executive who reported to him; NBC News said it had not independently verified that claim. NVIDIA has not addressed that report in the documents above. Reporting by the Associated Press and NBC News links the resignation to Huang’s admitted affair and the national-security questions around it; those are the outlets’ characterizations, not NVIDIA’s stated reason.

Huang has not been charged with anything in connection with these matters, and no finding of wrongdoing has been announced by the Board.

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