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Jensen Huang Didn’t Name His Own Replacement as One of Tech’s Most Powerful Women
黄仁勋未将自己的接任者列为科技界最具权势女性之一
Jensen Huang's evasive answers expose a cost: Nvidia's CEO defines industry power without naming women, shaping how the whole sector measures who counts.
Judgment
Nvidia’s board now faces whether to make Colette Kress permanent CEO: keeping her preserves continuity in AI’s most exposed company, but it also rewards a selection process that let Jensen Huang omit her from his own power list.
Basis
WIRED emailed Jensen Huang for its feature on power for women in tech. Huang replied that Meta’s Dina Powell and Google’s Ruth Porat came to mind because he sees them in DC; after prompting, he also called SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell impressive. He did not name Colette Kress, Nvidia’s CFO and highest-ranking woman executive, who joins him on nearly every quarterly earnings call and now serves as interim CEO. The mechanism is recognition: a CEO’s list signals which women count, and the omission sits alongside Kress’s new role atop the AI industry at a precarious moment.
Unclear The source does not say whether Nvidia’s board is actually considering Kress for the permanent CEO role, nor what criteria it would use.
Next Watch whether Nvidia’s next quarterly earnings call lists Kress as interim CEO or announces a permanent appointment.