He Joined Nvidia's Board in 1993, the Year It Was Founded. Today Harvey Jones Became Its First-Ever Chair. He Handed a Company to a Founder Once Before
247wallst.com reports that on November 12, 2026, Nvidia named Harvey Jones, a board member since the company's 1993 founding, its first-ever chair, in the same announcement where Jensen Huang resigned as president, CEO and director, with CFO Colette Kress serving as interim CEO. Author Jeremy Phillips highlights Jones's past handoff of the Synopsys CEO job to founder Aart de Geus as his most relevant experience.
