Most Powerful Women

Colette Kress

Courtesy of Nvidia
  • Affiliation
    Nvidia
  • Title
    Executive Vice President and CFO
  • Country/Territory
    U.S.

Colette Kress has served as Nvidia’s CFO since 2013, when the company was known as a gaming chipmaker and not yet as a determinant of the health of the global economy. Amid insatiable demand for Nvidia’s data center AI accelerators, Kress acts as the financial steward for the $216-billion-in-revenue business, responsible for translating CEO Jensen Huang’s moonshot ambitions into investor guidance. She has consistently framed AI infrastructure spending not as a bubble but as a once-in-a-generation structural shift from CPU to GPU computing.