NVIDIA is looking for a formal CEO candidate, and Bloomberg has listed 8 potential successors

According to Bloomberg, Nvidia is searching for a formal successor to CEO Jensen Huang. Following multiple revelations of Huang's extramarital affairs, the company has commissioned an external agency to identify potential candidates. Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress has taken over as interim CEO; she is the most well-known executive among investors after Huang. Bloomberg states that the board typically considers having the CFO take over to stabilize the situation, but financial executives are often viewed as transitional candidates in tech companies.

Other potential candidates listed by Bloomberg include: Ian Buck, who is responsible for data center products and AI chips and invented the CUDA software framework; Rene Haas, who previously worked at Nvidia and now leads chip design company Arm; Lisa Su, who leads AMD and has seen AMD's stock price increase nearly 170 times during her tenure; and Johny Srouji, who leads Apple's in-house chip project.

The list also includes Matt Garman, head of Amazon Web Services (AWS); Sanjay Mehrotra, chairman and CEO of Micron Technology, who has seen Micron's stock price increase over 2700% during his tenure; and Amin Vahdat, who is responsible for Google's TPU project. Bloomberg states that finding a suitable successor for this globally highest-valued chip manufacturer is not easy.