# Nvidia Taps Outside Firm to Find CEO Successor as Eight Names Surface

By John Kim

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Published: 2026-11-13T02:28:20.000Z
Updated: 2026-11-13T02:28:20.000Z
Section: Business

> Interim CEO Colette Kress is among the candidates, alongside executives tied to AMD, Arm, Apple, Amazon Web Services, Micron and Google.

Nvidia has engaged an outside firm to identify potential successors to CEO Jensen Huang, with eight candidates spanning company executives and leaders at major chip, cloud and technology firms.

The names include interim CEO Colette Kress and Nvidia data-center executive Ian Buck, alongside Arm's Rene Haas, AMD's Lisa Su, Apple's Johny Srouji, Amazon Web Services head Matt Garman, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra and Google TPU leader Amin Vahdat.

Buck oversees Nvidia's data-center products, including AI chips, and developed CUDA, the software framework that helped Nvidia chips gain wide use in artificial intelligence. Kress is the company's most familiar executive among investors after Huang.

Several outside candidates bring experience with competing or partner businesses. Su leads AMD, Nvidia's closest product rival, while Vahdat leads Google's TPU project, which challenges Nvidia's AI chip position. Haas leads Arm, which works closely with Nvidia. Garman leads AWS's cloud computing business and its data-center network, while Srouji heads Apple's custom-chip program.

Nvidia is the world's most valuable chipmaker, and its chips are widely used in AI systems, making the succession search consequential for a key supplier in the sector.