Nvidia’s 10-K, filed on 25 February 2026, named five executive officers. One of those seats has since changed hands: an 8-K filed on 2 July says Ajay K. Puri, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations, gave notice on 28 June of an intention to retire, and that Nvidia appointed Nicholas Parker, a 26-year Microsoft executive, to the role. The five people now in those seats have 74 years at Nvidia between them, by our arithmetic, against 95 for the five named in the 10-K.
The same 8-K gives Parker new-hire equity grants with target values of $35 million in restricted stock units and $5 million in multi-year performance stock units, $40 million together by our arithmetic, plus a $5 million sign-on bonus and a $1,000,000 base salary. These filings predate The Wall Street Journal’s 11 November report, citing people familiar with the matter, that Nvidia’s board is preparing to oust its chief executive; this piece sets out the bench as filed and makes no prediction about succession.
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The key insight: Nvidia’s 10-K named five executive officers with 95 years at the company between them. After the field-operations seat passed in August 2026 from a 21-year veteran to a new hire from Microsoft, with new-hire equity at a $40 million target value, the five seats hold 74 years, by our arithmetic. The chief executive is the officer the 10-K names as chief operating decision maker.
The 10-K lists ages and positions as of 20 February 2026. Jen-Hsun Huang, 63, President and Chief Executive Officer, “co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors since our inception”. Debora Shoquist, 71, Executive Vice President, Operations, joined in 2007. Colette M. Kress, 58, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, joined in 2013. Timothy S. Teter, 59, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, joined in 2017.
Parker, 55 according to the 8-K, filed a Form 3 giving 24 August 2026 as the date of the event requiring the statement, with the title “EVP, Worldwide Field Ops”. The 8-K says Puri, “a 21-year executive at NVIDIA”, is expected to stay in a senior advisory role. By our arithmetic, four of the five seats are held by officers with nine or more years at Nvidia, the median is 13 years, and the four officers other than the chief executive have 41 years between them.
Years at Nvidia for the people in the five executive-officer seats the 10-K lists: four hold nine or more years; the field-operations seat passed in August 2026 from a 21-year veteran to a new hire from Microsoft. Sources: NVIDIA 10-K (25 February 2026), 8-K (2 July 2026), Form 3. Years are our arithmetic (2026 minus the year joined).
Who Reviews the Segments
The 10-K names one officer as the reviewer of segment results: “Our Chief Executive Officer is our chief operating decision maker, or CODM, and reviews financial information presented on an operating segment basis for purposes of making decisions and assessing financialperformance”. The filing says segment expenses “are not regularly provided to our CODM” and that the CODM reviews expenses on a consolidated basis. The 10-Q filed on 26 August 2026 repeats the CODM sentence.
Nvidia reports two segments. Compute & Networking covers Data Center accelerated computing and networking platforms, AI solutions and software, and Automotive; Graphics covers GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs and RTX GPUs for enterprise workstation graphics, the 10-K says.
Other 2026 Officer and Board Changes
Two more seats around the bench changed in 2026, according to Nvidia’s 8-Ks. The 8-K of 27 April says the vice president and chief accounting officer gave notice on 24 April of a retirement from that role effective 4 May, and that a successor from Intel Corporation would serve as the company’s principal accounting officer. On the board, a director resigned on 20 January to pursue a new professional opportunity and “not because of any disagreement with the Company”, and an 8-K of 8 May says the board grew “from ten to eleven” effective 13 July 2026.
How Stockholders Voted in June
At the 24 June 2026 annual meeting, stockholders elected all ten nominees, the 8-K of 30 June says. Measured as For votes over For plus Against, support ranged from 99.0% for the chief executive to 86.7% for Lead Director Stephen C. Neal, by our arithmetic from the 8-K’s share counts. The chief executive received 16,650,193,763 votes For and 166,076,086 Against. Board tenure is in our earlier piece on the board, and the removal rules are in our explainer on how a board removes a CEO.
The Structural Read
As we read the filings, the bench is long-tenured at the top and newer at the edge: four of the five seats are held by officers with nine or more years, and the one change in 2026 brought in an executive from outside the company.
As we read the June vote, stockholders backed every director by a wide margin, with the narrowest support, 86.7% by our arithmetic, for the Lead Director who chairs the governance committee.
NVIDIA Form 10-K, 25 February 2026
“Our Chief Executive Officer is our chief operating decision maker, or CODM, and reviews financial information presented on an operating segment basis for purposes of making decisions and assessing financialperformance.”
Three Implications
FOR SHAREHOLDERS The five executive-officer seats hold 74 years at Nvidia, by our arithmetic, down from 95 in the 10-K, with one seat held since August 2026.
FOR THE BOARD Eleven directors since 13 July 2026, all ten June nominees elected with support between 86.7% and 99.0%, by our arithmetic from the 8-K.
FOR PAY DISCLOSURE The 2 July 8-K sets the new field-operations chief’s new-hire equity at $35 million in RSUs and $5 million in performance units at target, plus a $5 million sign-on bonus.
The framework describes the AI Supercycle as having “a layered industrial stack of nine layers, running from energy at the bedrock to governance at the ceiling”.
As we read it, the executive bench is where the governance layer meets the silicon layer: the officers who run the company that supplies the chips. The framework does not discuss Nvidia’s officers.
Support for each Nvidia director nominee at the 24 June 2026 annual meeting: For votes as a share of For plus Against, our arithmetic from the share counts in the 8-K filed 30 June 2026. Abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded. Source: NVIDIA 8-K, Item 5.07.
What Is Not Established
This piece reports the officers and directors in Nvidia’s SEC filings. It makes no prediction about succession or about who would lead the company, and Nvidia had announced no leadership change when we checked its newsroom and SEC filings at 23:02 UTC. Years at Nvidia are calendar years by our arithmetic (2026 minus the year each officer joined), so Parker’s August 2026 start counts as zero. Target values of equity grants are not amounts paid; the restricted stock units vest over about four years under the 8-K.
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Nvidia’s five executive-officer seats now hold 74 years at the company between them, by our arithmetic, down from 95 in the 10-K after the field-operations seat passed from a 21-year veteran to a Microsoft executive with $40 million of new-hire equity at target. The chief executive is also the officer the 10-K names as chief operating decision maker, and drew 99.0% support in June’s director vote, by our arithmetic.
A note on sourcing. We read Nvidia’s 10-K filed 25 February 2026 (executive officers and the segment note), the 10-Q filed 26 August 2026, the 8-Ks of 23 January, 27 April, 8 May, 30 June and 2 July 2026, the Form 3 filed 3 September 2026 and the 2026 proxy statement, all on SEC EDGAR. The Journal’s report is cited as reported. Years at Nvidia, totals, medians and vote percentages are our arithmetic.
Gennaro Cuofano is a CRO and tech executive who has worked in AI since late 2015, starting with bringing NLP, natural-language generation, voice and chatbot products to the marketing industry. His background is in law and finance: he holds a Master's degree in Law and an International MBA with an emphasis on corporate finance (LUISS Business School and the University of San Diego, 2012), and worked as a financial analyst at a real-estate investment firm in San Diego and as an assistant controller. His work focuses on business model strategy, business engineering and, more broadly, structural analysis: how companies make money, read from their own filings. He created FourWeekMBA and leads research there and at The Business Engineer, his newsletter on AI and business strategy, with over 95,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 published analyses. His writing has also appeared on Entrepreneur (for example, How to Digitize a Family Business in Europe) and HackerNoon. Find him on LinkedIn and Substack. See how we source.
