# Eight Candidates Emerge in Search for Nvidia’s Next CEO By Sonny Jang Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/people/56177 Published: 2026-11-13T02:15:30.000Z Updated: 2026-11-13T02:15:30.000Z Section: People > Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress is interim CEO as Nvidia searches for a permanent successor. Eight executives are potential contenders for Nvidia’s next CEO after former CEO Jensen Huang resigned and Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress became interim CEO. Huang resigned as Nvidia’s president, chief executive and a board member. Nvidia has engaged an outside search firm to find a permanent successor, and no permanent CEO has been named. The two internal candidates are Kress and Nvidia Vice President Ian Buck. Buck oversees the company’s hyperscale AI hardware and software business. He joined Nvidia in 2004 and is identified as the inventor of its CUDA architecture. The six outside candidates are Arm CEO Rene Haas, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Apple hardware chief Johny Srouji, Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman, Micron Technology CEO Sanjay Mehrotra and Google computer scientist Amin Vahdat. Haas previously led computing products at Nvidia. Srouji joined Apple in 2008 and led development of its custom chips for iPhone and Mac. Garman leads AWS and is familiar with how cloud providers purchase and deploy large-scale computing hardware. Mehrotra leads memory chipmaker Micron. Vahdat leads Google’s TPU project and works on custom chips, data centers and network architecture. The names follow earlier discussion of [possible Nvidia CEO successors](). Nvidia’s search for a permanent leader is underway. ## Links in this article - [possible Nvidia CEO successors](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/people/54757)