Who could replace Jensen Huang as Nvidia's chief executive?

The chief executive and co-founder of the AI chip-making giant is at the centre of a major scandal over reports of extramarital affairs, one of which was with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy. The tech giant is facing one of its biggest challenges, finding the right person to permanently lead the business that Huang helped create more than three decades ago and turned into one of the world's most valuable companies.

Nvidia's finance chief, Colette Kress, is taking on the chief executive role for an interim period while the company searches for a permanent replacement. An industry veteran for more than 30 years, Kress previously held high positions at tech firms like Cisco and Microsoft.

Kress, who also serves as Nvidia's executive vice president, has seen the firm's transformation from making chips for video games in the early 1990s to becoming an AI semiconductor powerhouse. She "fronts every earnings call" alongside Huang and is a "familiar and trusted voice for the market at a time when it badly needs one," said Josh Gilbert, an analyst at investment firm eToro.