Nvidia seeks official CEO candidate, Bloomberg reviews 8 potential successors

BlockBeats news, November 13, according to Bloomberg, Nvidia is searching for a formal successor to its highly influential CEO Jensen Huang, which is undoubtedly a daunting challenge for the world's most valuable chipmaker. After multiple extramarital affair scandals involving Jensen Huang were exposed, Nvidia has commissioned an external agency to identify potential CEO candidates. However, finding a suitable successor is no easy task. Bloomberg lists the following potential CEO successors for Nvidia:

1. Colette Kress has taken over as interim CEO of Nvidia; apart from Jensen Huang, she is the most well-known executive among Nvidia's investor community. Boards typically consider having the CFO take over to stabilize the company in the short term. However, finance chiefs are usually seen as transitional figures rather than ideal long-term CEO choices, especially at tech companies.

2. Ian Buck oversees Nvidia's data center product business, including AI chips. He is an executive familiar to Nvidia's customers and the inventor of the CUDA software framework. CUDA is a critical foundation for Nvidia chips to be widely applied in the AI field. However, he lacks the operational management experience that investors typically expect a CEO of a large public company to possess.

3. Rene Haas leads a leading chip design company, Arm, which maintains a close partnership with Nvidia. He previously worked at Nvidia and currently manages a complex ecosystem of customers and partners, with unique insights into Nvidia and the broader tech industry.

4. Lisa Su leads AMD, Nvidia's most direct competitor in terms of technology products and customer base. Under her leadership, AMD surpassed chip industry pioneer Intel in the technology sector, with its stock price rising nearly 170-fold cumulatively.

5. Johny Srouji led one of Apple's most successful in-house chip programs, overseeing the development of custom chips that power the iPhone, Mac, and other Apple devices. He has deep experience in chip design, product integration, and long-term technology roadmap planning.

6. Matt Garman is the head of Amazon Web Services (AWS), with both technical and operational management experience. He leads a massive cloud computing business that rents out computing power through an extensive data center network, including Amazon's self-developed chips.

7. Sanjay Mehrotra is the chairman and CEO of Micron Technology, familiar with how to lead a chip company through industry boom and bust cycles. Under his leadership, driven by rising memory chip prices fueled by AI demand, Micron's stock price has risen more than 2,700% cumulatively.

8. Amin Vahdat oversees Google's TPU program, which is one of the competitive forces challenging Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market.