Colette Kress

Colette Kress is an American business executive best known for serving as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of NVIDIA, a role she has held since September 2013. In this capacity, she oversees the company’s financial strategy, planning, reporting, and investor relations, helping guide NVIDIA through a period of extraordinary growth fueled by demand for GPUs and AI technologies. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Kress built nearly 25 years of experience in finance leadership roles at major tech companies, including serving as CFO of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Division and as Senior Vice President and CFO of Business Technology and Operations Finance at Cisco. Kress’s academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Arizona and an MBA from Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business, which laid the foundation for her strategic financial leadership. Under her tenure at NVIDIA, she has played a key role in steering the company’s financial performance amid its rise to become one of the world’s most valuable tech firms, and her influence has been recognized in industry rankings of powerful women in business. As of 2025, her success at NVIDIA has also contributed to her reaching billionaire status through equity ownership, placing her among the few CFOs with such financial distinction. #MomentsOfLife #MoofLife_Moment #MoofLife #ColetteKress #Nvidia #CFO #TechLeadership #WomenInBusiness #FinanceExecutive #AIRevolution #STEMLeadership #BusinessGrowth #ExecutiveSuccess