Nvidia Employees Push Board to Reinstate Jensen Huang as CEO
Nvidia employees are urging the board to reinstate Jensen Huang as CEO following his resignation, despite reported extramarital affairs, with the board now considering internal and external candidates for the permanent role. Huang resigned after reports of an intimate relationship with a second employee, following an earlier investigation into his ties to a woman US officials called a Chinese spy. Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress is interim CEO, and director Harvey C Jones became the board's first chair. Huang, 63, remains Nvidia's largest individual shareholder with a fortune over $150 billion, but he holds no board seat to influence the decision. Employee revolts have reinstated CEOs before, notably OpenAI's Sam Altman in 2023, though Huang's resignation differs from Altman's firing.