Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns amid spy, affair scandals

Nvidia's board announced that co-founder, president and CEO Jensen Huang resigned effective immediately after reports of two extramarital affairs, one with an alleged Chinese spy at Megaspeed and one with Nvidia VP Kimberly Powell, who reported to him; CFO Colette Kress was appointed interim CEO and former Synopsys CEO Harvey C. Jones became the company's first board chair. The board is searching for a permanent CEO and will consider internal and external candidates, with Kress, Apple's Johny Srouji, Nvidia VP Ian Buck, AMD CEO Lisa Su and Arm CEO Rene Haas reportedly at the top of the list. Huang, who led Nvidia since its founding in 1993, had admitted being "unfaithful" to his wife in a memo to employees over the weekend.