Who is Colette Kress, Nvidia's interim CEO? Longtime exec takes top spot after Jensen Huang resigns

CHICAGO (AP) — Nvidia has appointed a 13-year veteran executive behind some of its biggest financing deals as interim CEO after the abrupt resignation of its longtime leader shook Silicon Valley.With Jensen Huang stepping down over reports of extramarital affairs, including reportedly with a Chinese spy, Nvidia on Thursday turned to Colette Kress to take control. Kress is a high-ranking financial executive who regularly communicated with Wall Street analysts and investors as the company burgeoned into a $4 trillion linchpin in the artificial intelligence industry.Kress has been a key architect of Nvidia's strategy of striking partnerships with and investing in companies that are also customers in what are referred to as “circular financing” deals. The arrangements have raised concerns about financial risk.For example, Nvidia holds a nearly 13% stake in the neocloud company CoreWeave, which purchases Nvidia chips and rents out the computing power to companies developing AI models. When