NEW YORK, November 14. /TASS/. The board of directors of the US corporation Nvidia has denied media reports of talks with any potential candidates for the position of CEO following Jensen Huang’s resignation, CNBC journalist Seema Mody said.
"We are in the process of selecting a search firm for the NVIDIA CEO role. We have not formally engaged any potential candidates. Any speculation regarding individual candidates, whether internal or external, is premature," the board said in a statement to Mody, which she posted on her X page.
On November 13, the Financial Times reported, citing sources, that Nvidia’s board of directors had contacted Rene Haas, the head of the UK technology company Arm Holdings, who worked at Nvidia over 10 years ago. According to the newspaper, Haas is one of several candidates for the CEO position. However, there is no guarantee that he will be offered the job, nor that he will accept it.
Huang had previously stepped down from his positions as CEO and president of Nvidia, the world’s leading manufacturer of artificial intelligence chips, and resigned from its board of directors. On November 8, Nvidia’s board of directors announced the launch of an investigation into Huang. He admitted to having a romantic relationship with a woman who was allegedly suspected of spying for China. The country’s Foreign Ministry stated that it considers allegations that a woman associated with Huang worked for Chinese intelligence to be slander.