Bloomberg lists 8 potential successors to Jensen Huang: 2 internal candidates and 6 external hires
Odaily reports: Jensen Huang officially announced last night that he is stepping down as president, chief executive officer, and board member of Nvidia. Although Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress has become interim CEO, Nvidia is also commissioning an external executive search firm to find a successor.
Bloomberg published an article this morning listing 8 potential candidates who could ultimately succeed Jensen Huang as permanent CEO.
There are two internal candidates:
1. Colette Kress: the current interim CEO. She is a good transitional choice for the moment, offering investors a familiar face and financial stability, but she lacks an engineering background.
2. Ian Buck: Nvidia vice president and inventor of the CUDA architecture (joined in 2004). He is one of the strongest technical candidates within the company and is mainly responsible for the hyperscale AI hardware and software business.
There are six external candidates:
3. Rene Haas: current CEO of Arm, who previously oversaw Nvidia's computing product business. He is one of the most frequently mentioned external candidates and is very familiar with Nvidia's business and the broader semiconductor ecosystem.
4. Lisa Su: current CEO of AMD. As the head of a long-standing competitor, she has extremely strong management and leadership experience in the chip industry.
5. Johny Srouji: senior vice president of hardware and chief hardware officer at Apple. He joined Apple in 2008 and led the development of in-house chips ranging from the A-series chips for iPhone to the M-series chips for Mac.
6. Matt Garman: CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is familiar with how cloud service providers procure and deploy large-scale computing chips.()
7. Sanjay Mehrotra: CEO of Micron Technology. He has extensive experience in the memory chip field, and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is precisely an indispensable key link in the supply chain for current AI processors.
8. Amin Vahdat: a Google computer scientist and a core executive responsible for Google's TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) project. He has exceptionally high technical expertise in custom chips, data centers, and network architecture.
