Colette Kress 临危受命：英伟达十三年财务掌门暂代 CEO，11月17日业绩首考在即

黄仁勋辞职之后，《华尔街日报》11月13日刊发长篇人物特写，主角是接替他的人：Colette Kress。这位59岁的财务主管自2013年起执掌英伟达的账本，如今以临时首席执行官身份接管这家她服务了十三年的公司，成为英伟达1993年创立以来第一位非创始人出身的掌舵人，并同时继续兼任首席财务官。

她的职业生涯从半导体业起步：先在德州仪器（Texas Instruments）从事财务工作约八年，1997年加入微软（Microsoft），十三年间做到服务器与工具事业部首席财务官，负责该部门的财务战略、规划与报告。2010年，她转投网络设备商思科（Cisco），任业务技术与运营财务组织高级副总裁兼首席财务官，管辖全部业务板块及工程与运营的财务。她持有亚利桑那大学金融理学学士学位与南方卫理公会大学工商管理硕士学位。

据《华尔街日报》报道，她2013年决定加入英伟达，背后有她两个儿子的推动，这是她2023年接受以色列媒体采访时讲起的往事；她本人也曾表示，自己是被黄仁勋的远见与这家公司的文化吸引而来。她到任的那个财年，英伟达全年营收41.3亿美元，主要业务还是游戏显卡。

十三年后，这家公司的体量已经完全不同：2026财年（截至2026年1月）英伟达营收达到2,159亿美元，是她上任那一年的52倍；公司市值2023年5月突破1万亿美元，其后两年接连越过2万亿、3万亿与4万亿美元关口。这期间的大交易都经她的手：2019年宣布、2020年以69亿美元完成收购 Mellanox，2020年宣布的400亿美元收购安谋（Arm）在2022年终止，公司还先后在2021年与2024年两次拆股。十三年里每一个季度的财报电话会，都是她向华尔街拆解营收、毛利率与业绩指引。

据《华尔街日报》报道，她近年最受关注的手笔，是主导扩大英伟达的资产负债表，用财务支持为客户的数据中心项目兜底、以此换取客户采购英伟达芯片；今年8月，在市场出现负面反应之后，她推动踩下刹车，英伟达随后暂停了部分同类安排。这一进一退，显示她并不只管记账：哪些交易该做、哪些该停，她直接参与决定。

不过，据《华尔街日报》另一篇报道援引一名知情人士称，黄仁勋今年8月在一次财务团队会议上当面打断她的汇报，称她汇报时「像被车灯照住的鹿」，并说她只是「汇报型 CFO」、难以与他共同制定战略。这段据称的对话未经英伟达证实，本站亦无法独立核实；报道在她上任之际刊出，让这次交接多了一层注脚。

眼下她要稳住的局面并不轻：据《华尔街日报》报道，英伟达一周内市值蒸发超过6,000亿美元，董事会11月8日启动的独立调查仍在进行，正式遴选也没有时间表。董事会主席 Harvey C. Jones 在交接公告中表示，Kress 带领公司走过了一段非凡的增长期，董事会完全信任她与领导团队，预计公司运营、客户承诺与产品路线图不会中断。Kress 本人在公告中说，她将致力于在黄仁勋过去33年打下的坚实基础上继续前进；上任次日，她致信全体员工，称对公司与未来有充分信心，并定于11月18日上午召开全员会议。

据英伟达向美国证券交易委员会（SEC）提交的文件，她2026财年的总薪酬约为1,430万美元，绝大部分是股票。据《华尔街日报》特写，她持有的英伟达股票市值仍超过8亿美元；据《福布斯》今年6月公布的美国白手起家女性富豪榜，她的净资产约12亿美元，排名还在歌手 Beyoncé 之前。

她的第一场大考已经排定：11月17日，英伟达将公布2027财年第三季度业绩。十三年里每一季，都是她在财报电话会上向华尔街讲解这家公司的数字；这一次，她将第一次以首席执行官的身份坐上主位，而要回答的问题不会只关于数字。董事会遴选的结果与她本人的去留，本站将继续跟进。

资料引用：英伟达公司、美国证券交易委员会文件、路透社

关联：黄仁勋辞去英伟达首席执行官职务，立即生效：财务总监 Kress 任临时 CEO，董事会启动正式遴选

关联：英伟达临时首席执行官 Kress 致信全体员工：对公司与未来有充分信心，11月18日召开全员会议

Colette Kress Steps Up: NVIDIA's Finance Chief of 13 Years Takes Over as Interim CEO, With Nov. 17 Earnings as First Test

After Jensen Huang's resignation, The Wall Street Journal published a lengthy profile on November 13 of the person succeeding him: Colette Kress. The 59-year-old finance chief has run NVIDIA's books since 2013. She now takes over the company she has served for thirteen years as interim chief executive — the first non-founder to lead NVIDIA since its founding in 1993 — while continuing to serve as chief financial officer.

Her career began in the semiconductor industry: she spent about eight years in finance roles at Texas Instruments before joining Microsoft in 1997, where over thirteen years she rose to chief financial officer of the Server and Tools division, responsible for that division's financial strategy, planning and reporting. In 2010 she moved to networking equipment maker Cisco as senior vice president and chief financial officer of its Business Technology and Operations Finance organization, overseeing finance for all business segments, engineering and operations. She holds a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Arizona and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.

According to the Journal, her two sons urged her to join NVIDIA in 2013, a story she recounted in a 2023 interview with an Israeli newspaper; she has also said she was drawn by Huang's vision and the company's culture. In the fiscal year she arrived, NVIDIA's revenue was $4.13 billion and its main business was still gaming graphics cards.

Thirteen years on, the company is a different size altogether: revenue reached $215.9 billion in fiscal 2026 (ended January 2026), 52 times the year she joined, and its market value passed $1 trillion in May 2023, then crossed $2 trillion, $3 trillion and $4 trillion over the following two years. The era's big deals all passed through her hands: the $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox, announced in 2019 and completed in 2020; the $40 billion acquisition of Arm, announced in 2020 and terminated in 2022; and two stock splits, in 2021 and 2024. For thirteen years, every quarterly earnings call has featured Kress walking Wall Street through the revenue, gross margin and guidance numbers.

According to the Journal, her most closely watched recent move was leading the expansion of NVIDIA's balance sheet, using financial backstops for customers' data-center projects in exchange for purchases of NVIDIA chips; in August, after a negative market reaction, she pushed to pump the brakes, and NVIDIA subsequently paused some of those arrangements. The advance and the retreat together show that she does more than keep the books: she takes part directly in deciding which deals go ahead and which stop.

The Journal, citing a person familiar with the comments, also reported that at a finance team meeting this August, Huang interrupted her presentation, called her "a deer in the headlights" and said she was a "reporting CFO" rather than someone who could help him define strategy. NVIDIA has not confirmed the account, and GSM cannot independently verify it; its publication just as she takes over adds a further note to this handover.

The situation she must steady is not a light one: NVIDIA has shed more than $600 billion in market value within a week, according to the Journal; the independent investigation the board launched on November 8 is still under way; and the formal CEO search has no timetable. Board chairman Harvey C. Jones said in the transition announcement that Kress has led the company through an extraordinary period of growth, that the board has full confidence in her and the leadership team, and that operations, customer commitments and the product roadmap are expected to continue without interruption. Kress said in the announcement that she would keep building on the extraordinary foundation Huang created over 33 years; the day after taking over, she wrote to all employees expressing confidence in the company and its future, and set a company-wide meeting for the morning of November 18.

According to NVIDIA's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), her total compensation for fiscal 2026 was about $14.3 million, mostly in stock. According to the Journal's profile, the NVIDIA shares she holds are still worth more than $800 million; Forbes, in its June list of America's richest self-made women, put her net worth at about $1.2 billion, ranked ahead of the singer Beyoncé.

Her first big test is already scheduled: on November 17, NVIDIA will report its results for the third quarter of fiscal 2027. For thirteen years she has been the one explaining this company's numbers to Wall Street on the earnings call; this time she will sit in the chief executive's seat for the first time, and the questions will not be only about numbers. GSM will continue to follow the board's search and her own future in this role.

Reference: NVIDIA, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings, Reuters

Related: Jensen Huang Resigns as NVIDIA CEO, Effective Immediately: CFO Colette Kress Named Interim CEO as Board Launches Search

Related: Nvidia Interim CEO Kress Writes to Employees Expressing Confidence; Company-Wide Meeting Set for November 18

来源：华尔街日报

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图片来源：图：英伟达临时首席执行官兼首席财务官 Colette Kress。SiliconANGLE theCUBE 摄，CC BY 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: NVIDIA interim CEO and CFO Colette Kress. Photo by SiliconANGLE theCUBE, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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