#每周来晒 #黄仁勋辞职 According to a statement by Nvidia’s Board of Directors on Thursday, Huang stepped down as president and CEO and resigned from the board, effective immediately. The resignation comes amid allegations of two extramarital relationships: one with an executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, whom US intelligence agencies suspect of working on behalf of China’s Ministry of State Security; the other with Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare, who reported directly to Huang. The matter took on national security dimensions after the FBI opened an investigation and the US Congress summoned Huang to testify.

The Board appointed Harvey C. Jones as the company’s first-ever chairman and named CFO Colette Kress interim CEO. Kress will continue serving as both CFO and interim CEO until a permanent CEO is selected.

Who is Colette Kress, and what message does she send to markets?
Kress has served as Nvidia’s CFO since September 2013; prior to that, she had about 25 years of finance experience at Cisco, Microsoft, and Texas Instruments. Yorkville Ives & Co. analyst Dan Ives summed up Kress’s standing at the company in a statement to CNBC: “Colette Kress is the only person within the company with this level of respect. She is much more than just a CFO; she could almost be considered a COO. Jensen wouldn’t do anything without her input.”

In her statement upon taking the role, Kress stressed that the company’s core direction would not change: “Nvidia’s strength has always come from its employees. We will continue our work in accelerated computing and artificial intelligence, and remain focused on serving our customers, partners, developers, and shareholders.”

Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management, meanwhile, pointed to the structural risk: “Investors have long been buying Nvidia’s technology and Huang’s vision in equal measure. The company will now have to calculate how much of that premium depends on a single individual.”