We have just witnessed a historic moment.
On the evening of November 12, the board of directors of Invisalign announced its final decision, with co-founder, CEO Jensen Huang resigning and Colette Kress serving as interim CEO.
In addition, Invisalign has also appointed a chairman of the board for the first time: Harvey C. Jones.
Colette Kress, newly appointed CEO of INVEDA, will not only serve as INVEDA's interim CEO, but will also continue to serve as its executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Following her resignation as CEO on November 12, 2026, the board asked her to succeed her as CEO until the official successor determined that the scope of the selection covers internal and external candidates. She joined INVEDA in September 2013 and has since been in charge of the company's financial system.
Colette Kress
Prior to joining INVIDA, Kress had nearly 25 years of financial management experience in the technology industry. Her career began at semiconductor company Texas Instruments, where she worked for eight years in finance; worked at Microsoft from 1997 to 2010, serving as chief financial officer for the server and tool industries since 2006; and transferred to Cisco in 2010, where she became senior vice president and chief financial officer for business technology and operations finance. She holds a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Arizona and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.
Harvey C. Jones, the first chairman of the board of directors, is the first person to hold the position in the company's 33-year history.
Following Huang's resignation on November 12, 2026, the Board of Directors elevated him to the position of Chairman and expressed his support on behalf of the Board to interim CEO Colette Kress and the management team. Jones, who has been a director of the Company since its inception in 1993, is one of the longest-serving members of the Board of Directors, having previously served on the Audit Committee, the Nominating Committee and the Corporate Governance Committee.
Jones is a senior figure in the Silicon Valley EDA (electronic design automation) industry, a triple-digit entrepreneur, technology company executive, and venture capitalist. In 1981, he co-founded the computer-aided engineering company Daisy Systems, and served as president and CEO until 1987; from 1987 to 1998, he led New Thought Technologies (NYSE:Synopsys), first as CEO for seven years, and then as executive chairman; and later co-founded processor IP company Tensilica. Since 2004, he has been managing partner of private equity firm Square Wave Ventures. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from Georgetown University and a master's degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The following is the full text of Ingrid's announcement:
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) Board of Directors announced today that Jensen Huang has resigned as President, CEO and Board Member of the company with immediate effect.
Colette Kress, current executive vice president and chief financial officer of NVIDIA, has agreed to serve as interim chief executive officer. Prior to the appointment of the official successor, Kress will continue to serve as interim chief executive officer while serving as executive vice president and chief financial officer.
Kress has served as the company's executive vice president and chief financial officer since joining NVIDIA in September 2013. During her tenure, she led the company's financial organization and played a key role in NVIDIA's growth and development. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Kress held financial positions at leading technology companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, and Microsoft for nearly 25 years.
The Board has appointed Harvey C. Jones as the first Chairman of the Board in the Company's history. Mr. Jones has over 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, tech executive and active venture capitalist, including serving as CEO and CEO of Synopsys.
"Colette has helped NVIDIA go through an extraordinary period of growth with a deep understanding of our business, customers, operations, and finances", said Harvey Jones, NVIDIA's chairman of the board. "She has the support of an experienced leadership team that has played a key role in implementing NVIDIA's strategy and advancing technology roadmaps.
Colette Kress, NVIDIA's interim chief executive and chief financial officer, said, "NVIDIA's strength always comes from its employees. I will work with the leadership team to continue building on the extraordinary foundation that Jensen has laid over the past 33 years". "We will continue to push forward to make NVIDIA a leader in accelerated computing and AI to seize future opportunities. Our focus remains on service, customers, developers and shareholders".
Jensen's contributions to NVIDIA are profound. NVIDIA is one of the most influential technology companies in the world. The board and company thank Jensen for his invaluable contributions to the company and the industry as a whole.
NVIDIA will release its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2027 at approximately 1:20 p.m. Pacific time on Tuesday, November 17, as scheduled, followed by a financial conference call at 2:00 p.m. Pacific time.
The "Soul Man" by Ingrid
There is no doubt that Jensen Huang is the "soul figure" of Inuyasha.
His most notable achievements were the 33 years of continuous pushing Intel to move across different markets, from game graphics chips, to general accelerated computing, to AI data centers. This required technical judgment, long-term inputs and commercial execution at the same time.
This is almost irreplaceable.
In 1993, he co-founded NVIDIA with two partners, and at the beginning of his career, he took a technical path, confessing to large customers and seeking mutual financial support to restart the company. In 1997, he launched RIVA 128 supporting Direct3D.
In 1999, Ingrid launched GeForce 256 on NASDAQ. It further integrated geometrical transformation and lighting into graphics chips, making GPUs a more complete graphics processor. The gaming business brought market, revenue and mass shipments, and steadily pushed GPUs to improve parallel computing capabilities. Later, researchers used the hardware to train neural networks, which was developing gradually in this commercial competition.
Nvidia released the CUDA toolkit and SDK 1.0 in 2007, allowing developers to use more familiar programming methods to benefit from GPUs for computing outside of graphics, scientific simulation, image processing, and linear algebra. CUDA is considered to be the important gateway to Intel today, gradually transforming the hardware capabilities of GPUs into an algorithmic platform that programmers can use.
In 2012, the emergence of AlexNet gave the GPU a very convincing validation in combination with deep learning. Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton, among others, achieved breakthrough AI image recognition results. They used two GTX 580 GPUs, which took about five to six days to train.
In 2016, Intel went further towards a complete computing system. In 2016, the integrated system DGX-1 built specifically for deep learning brought together GPUs, AI software frameworks and development tools. In the same year, Huang Yi personally delivered the first DGX-1 to OpenAI. In 2017, Intel's Volta architecture was again introduced to Tensor Core, further oriented towards deep learning computing optimization.
For more than three decades, he has led the company from a graphics chip manufacturer to one of the most important infrastructure providers in the global AI wave, bringing his name to almost the same level as Intel.
Today, more than thirty years in the life of the founder and CEO have come to a head in a way that almost no one anticipated.
Jensen Huang has personally pushed Nvidia into the heart of the AI era. Now the company must respond to its own future in a highly uncertain situation.
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