Nvidia Seeks New CEO Amid Reports of Huang's Affairs
Translated & summarized from NEWSru Israel by baba
Nvidia is searching for a new CEO, reportedly due to extramarital affairs involving current CEO Jensen Huang. An external firm is conducting the search, with Israeli Jony Srouji of Apple among potential candidates. Internal possibilities include CFO Colette Kress and VP Ian Buck, though they face limitations. Other external names mentioned are ARM's Rene Haas, Amazon's Matt Garman, and Google's Amin Vahdat.
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- Nvidia is seeking a new CEO following reports of CEO Jensen Huang's extramarital affairs.
- Israeli Jony Srouji, Apple's head of hardware engineering, is a potential external candidate.
- Internal candidates include Nvidia CFO Colette Kress and VP Ian Buck.
- Other external candidates mentioned are ARM CEO Rene Haas and Amazon's Matt Garman.
- Jensen Huang's children and son-in-law also work at Nvidia.
Nvidia has hired an external firm to find candidates for its CEO position following reports of two extramarital affairs by current CEO Jensen Huang, according to Bloomberg. Among the potential internal candidates mentioned are Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress, known to investors, and Ian Buck, a vice president leading the data center products division and creator of the CUDA platform. However, CFOs are typically seen as interim solutions, and Buck lacks experience managing a large public company.
An Israeli, Jony Srouji, Apple's Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, is named as a possible external candidate. Srouji oversees the development of Apple's proprietary chips for devices like the iPhone and Mac. While his chip development and tech strategy expertise are highly valued, his experience is within Apple's closed ecosystem, and his sales skills, a hallmark of Huang's, remain untested in practice.
Other external candidates cited by Bloomberg include ARM CEO Rene Haas, a former Nvidia employee, Amazon AWS cloud division head Matt Garman, and Google's Head of AI Infrastructure Amin Vahdat. Nvidia also employs three members of the Huang family: his children Spencer and Madison, and his son-in-law, who is a vice president of global AI infrastructure. Jensen Huang himself has previously stated he does not wish for his children to bear the burden of leading the company.
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