Newshot Colette Kress
Also written as：科莱特·克雷斯 / Colette Marie Kress / 克雷斯 / 科莱特 · 克雷斯
American business executive, executive vice president and CFO of NVIDIA since 2013; interim chief executive officer since 12 November 2026, after Jensen Huang's resignation.
Kress earned a BSc in finance from the University of Arizona and an MBA from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.
Career
She began in the finance department at Texas Instruments, later serving as CFO of Microsoft's Server and Tools Division and then of Cisco's Business Technology and Operations Finance section.
In September 2013, after a search that ran about two years, she joined NVIDIA as chief financial officer. At the time she was seen as unlikely to change the company dramatically — her background was finance at mature companies rather than startup improvisation. Over the following decade she built out the finance organisation and the company's capital-markets story, a period in which its valuation went from tens of billions to more than US$5 trillion.
On 12 November 2026, after co-founder Jensen Huang resigned amid scandal, the board named her interim CEO and began a search for a permanent successor. She has been a billionaire since July 2025 on the strength of her NVIDIA equity.
Personal life
Little is publicly documented about her personal life; she keeps a low profile and rarely gives interviews.