NVIDIA Sales Intelligence Report: Corporate Structure, Board of Directors and Executive Leadership (2026)

As of September 26, 2026, NVIDIA Corporation is led by co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang, with Colette M. Kress as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. NVIDIA has no board chair: independent Lead Director Stephen C. Neal leads an 11-member board, and the company reports two segments, Compute & Networking and Graphics. Sources: NVIDIA’s Form 10-K for fiscal 2026, Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 26, 2026, 2026 proxy statement, Q2 fiscal 2027 earnings call (August 26, 2026) and NVIDIA’s investor relations site.

Last updated September 26, 2026. Compiled by Databahn from NVIDIA’s SEC filings and investor relations site.

NVIDIA key facts

Legal name	NVIDIA Corporation (10-K FY2026, cover)
Incorporation	Delaware (incorporated in California in April 1993; reincorporated in Delaware in April 1998) (10-K FY2026, Item 1)
Headquarters	2788 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, California 95051 (10-K FY2026, cover)
Ticker and exchange	NVDA, The Nasdaq Global Select Market (10-K FY2026, cover)
Fiscal 2026 revenue	$215.9 billion, up 65% (fiscal year ended January 25, 2026) (10-K FY2026, Item 7)
Latest quarter revenue	$96.2 billion for the quarter ended July 26, 2026, up 106% year over year (10-Q Q2 FY2027, Item 2)
Employees	About 42,000 in 38 countries, 31,000 of them in research and development (end of fiscal 2026) (10-K FY2026, Item 1)
Locations	About 3 million sq. ft. owned and leased at the Santa Clara headquarters; facilities primarily in China, India, Israel and Taiwan (10-K FY2026, Item 2)
Reportable segments	Compute & Networking; Graphics (10-Q Q2 FY2027, Note 13)
Market platforms	Data Center (Hyperscale; AI Clouds, Industrial & Enterprise) and Edge Computing (10-Q Q2 FY2027, Note 13)
Fiscal year end	Last Sunday in January; fiscal 2027 is a 53-week year (10-Q Q2 FY2027, Note 1)

NVIDIA account intelligence highlights

Strategic priorities

NVIDIA’s 10-K lists five business strategies, starting with advancing its accelerated computing platform and extending its technology and platform leadership in AI. On the August 26, 2026 call, management said customers outside the hyperscalers (AI clouds, sovereigns, industrial and enterprise buyers, reported as ACIE) will make up roughly half of the data center business, and that Vera Rubin production shipments began in August. A pitch tied to one of these named priorities gets a hearing faster than a pitch about a product category.

The full Databahn report maps each priority to the executive who owns it and the budget it draws from.

What NVIDIA’s executives are paid to deliver

Fiscal 2026 cash bonuses paid on revenue (base goal $130.0 billion, stretch $160.0 billion), and single-year PSUs vested on non-GAAP operating income (base goal $71.0 billion). NVIDIA reported $215.9 billion and $137.3 billion, so every named executive earned the maximum payout. Multi-year PSUs track three-year total shareholder return against the S&P 500, and 96% of the CEO’s fiscal 2026 target pay depended on performance. Sellers who frame value in revenue and operating income speak the language leadership is measured in.

The full Databahn report ties each metric to the leader who carries it and the questions that open that conversation.

Spending and capital plans

Capital expenditures were $6.1 billion in fiscal 2026, and NVIDIA expects to spend more in fiscal 2027. As of July 26, 2026, supply and capacity commitments stood at $279 billion, up from $119 billion a quarter earlier, inside $366 billion of total future commitments that also include $29 billion of cloud service agreements, $25 billion of data center leases not yet started, $25 billion of equity investments and $8 billion of capital expenditures. NVIDIA issued $25.0 billion of senior notes in June 2026. Commitments at this scale mean multi-year purchasing decisions in supply chain, facilities and cloud are being made right now.

The full Databahn report breaks these commitments out by function and names who signs for each.

Acquisitions and integrations

In December 2025 NVIDIA signed a non-exclusive license for Groq’s language processing unit technology and hired certain Groq employees, recording $14.4 billion of goodwill and a $2.5 billion intangible asset; it paid $13.0 billion at closing with $4 billion due within a year. NVIDIA acquired an unnamed company on May 15, 2026 (926,447 shares, about $209 million), and held $99 billion of equity investments with $25 billion more committed as of July 26, 2026. The 2020 Mellanox acquisition added networking. Every deal brings teams and systems that have to be folded in.

The full Databahn report shows where each deal sits in the org and which integration decisions are still open.

Technology and AI initiatives

Programs named in the filings and on the call include Blackwell Ultra, the Vera Rubin platform, the standalone Vera CPU, Groq 3 LPX, NVIDIA AI Enterprise (NIM, NeMo and AI Blueprints), the Nemotron, Cosmos and GR00T open models, Omniverse, DRIVE Hyperion and NVLink Fusion. Management also said growing internal use of AI tools is one reason fiscal 2027 operating expenses will rise in the low 50s percent. Using NVIDIA’s own program names in a first meeting shows you did the homework.

The full Databahn report lists the teams behind each program and the tools they already run.

Risk factors and pressure points

The 10-K says NVIDIA was effectively foreclosed from China’s data center compute market at the end of fiscal 2026. Export rules led to a $4.5 billion H20 charge in fiscal 2026 and a $0.4 billion H200 charge in the first half of fiscal 2027. Other named pressures include a supply chain concentrated in Asia, memory prices that management said rose more than it expected, one direct customer at 16% of Q2 fiscal 2027 revenue, and counterparty exposure from guarantees and commitments. A vendor who reduces one of these exposures has a reason to get the meeting.

The full Databahn report ranks these pressures by function and the budget owner closest to each.

How vendors get approved

Under 10-K Item 1C, NVIDIA runs a vendor risk assessment process: suppliers receive questionnaires scaled to the sensitivity of the data they handle, their privacy and security controls are reviewed, and high-risk suppliers are routinely assessed against ISO 27001, ISO 28001 and C-TPAT. NVIDIA’s own security program generally follows ISO 27001. Vendors who arrive with those answers ready move through review faster.

The full Databahn report outlines each review stage a new vendor passes and who clears it.

Who owns security and data decisions

The board retains oversight of information security. The Audit Committee, chaired by A. Brooke Seawell, reviews security policies and internal controls and receives regular updates from the Chief Security Officer, who reports to NVIDIA’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering. A cross-functional executive team meets regularly on cyber threats, and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee oversees trade compliance and regulatory matters. Security decisions run through software engineering, with the Audit Committee above them.

The full Databahn report names the security, IT and compliance leaders and how their teams connect.

Leadership changes

The fiscal 2026 10-K and 2026 proxy name Ajay K. Puri as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations. Puri has since retired, and NVIDIA’s investor site now lists Nick Parker in that role; Parker joined NVIDIA in August 2026. Suzanne Nora Johnson, retired Vice Chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, joined the board effective July 13, 2026, raising it to 11 members. Earlier board changes: Ellen Ochoa resigned in July 2025, Robert K. Burgess died in December 2025 and Persis S. Drell resigned in January 2026. New leaders are easiest to reach before their priorities harden.

The full Databahn report tracks each change and the direct reports around it.

Systems and business transformations

NVIDIA is continuing a phased upgrade of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to update core financial systems, disclosed in Item 9A of the 10-K and Item 4 of the Q2 fiscal 2027 10-Q. The 10-K adds that new ERP accounting functionality is being designed and implemented. In the first quarter of fiscal 2027 NVIDIA also changed how it presents revenue, moving to Data Center and Edge Computing market platforms. Finance system work at this scale needs data, controls and integration help.

The full Databahn report identifies which finance and IT systems are in scope and who runs the program.

Shareholder pressure

Four shareholder proposals were on the June 24, 2026 ballot: a simple majority vote standard, a report on faith-based community resource groups, a report on workforce civil liberties, and disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions from the use of sold products. The board recommended against all four. On emissions, NVIDIA said it plans to add use-of-sold-products emissions to its Scope 3 reporting and already has reduction targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. These are the disclosures NVIDIA’s board is being asked to defend.

The full Databahn report explains what each proposal means for vendors in sustainability, HR and governance software.

Locations by territory

NVIDIA owns and leases about 3 million square feet at its Santa Clara headquarters and has facilities primarily in China, India, Israel and Taiwan. It had about 42,000 employees in 38 countries at the end of fiscal 2026, and about 6,200 employees in Israel as of the Q2 fiscal 2027 10-Q. Long-lived assets at fiscal 2026 year end: United States $5.1 billion, Taiwan $3.2 billion, Israel $1.5 billion, other $0.6 billion. Q2 fiscal 2027 revenue by customer headquarters: United States $60.1 billion, Taiwan $27.0 billion, China (including Hong Kong) $7.9 billion, other $1.3 billion. Territory reps can see where NVIDIA’s people and assets sit before planning coverage.

The full Databahn report maps sites and leaders by territory.

What management told analysts

On August 26, 2026, management guided third-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue to $108 billion, plus or minus 2%, and gross margin to 74%, plus or minus 50 basis points, with margins expected to bottom at 71% to 72% in the fourth quarter because of memory costs. It gave a preliminary outlook of about 70% revenue growth in fiscal 2028, called that outlook supply-constrained, and expects CPU revenue to more than double that year. No China data center compute revenue is in the outlook. The next earnings call is scheduled for November 17, 2026. Cost and supply proposals line up with what leadership just told investors.

The full Databahn report turns these commitments into talking points for each executive.

NVIDIA org chart FAQ

Who is NVIDIA’s CEO?

Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang is NVIDIA’s President and Chief Executive Officer. He co-founded the company in 1993 and has been CEO and a board member since its founding.

Who is NVIDIA’s CFO?

Colette M. Kress is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. She joined NVIDIA in 2013 after serving as Senior Vice President and CFO of the Business Technology and Operations Finance organization at Cisco.

Who chairs NVIDIA’s board?

NVIDIA has no board chair. Stephen C. Neal, Chairman Emeritus and Senior Counsel of Cooley LLP, serves as independent Lead Director and chairs the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Who is on NVIDIA’s board of directors?

The board has 11 members: Tench Coxe, John O. Dabiri, Jen-Hsun Huang, Dawn Hudson, Harvey C. Jones, Melissa B. Lora, Stephen C. Neal, Suzanne Nora Johnson, A. Brooke Seawell, Aarti Shah and Mark A. Stevens. Suzanne Nora Johnson joined effective July 13, 2026.

How is NVIDIA organized?

NVIDIA reports two segments: Compute & Networking (data center, networking and automotive) and Graphics (GeForce and workstation GPUs). It also presents revenue by market platform: Data Center, split into Hyperscale and AI Clouds, Industrial & Enterprise, plus Edge Computing.

Who oversees cybersecurity at NVIDIA?

The board oversees information security, and its Audit Committee, chaired by A. Brooke Seawell, reviews security policies and controls. NVIDIA’s Chief Security Officer reports to the Senior Vice President of Software Engineering.

Who runs sales at NVIDIA?

NVIDIA’s investor site lists Nick Parker as EVP, Worldwide Field Operations; he joined NVIDIA in August 2026. Ajay K. Puri, named to the role in the fiscal 2026 10-K and 2026 proxy, has retired.

What has NVIDIA acquired recently?

In December 2025 NVIDIA licensed Groq’s language processing unit technology on a non-exclusive basis and hired certain Groq employees, paying $13.0 billion at closing. It also acquired an unnamed company on May 15, 2026 for 926,447 shares worth about $209 million.

What’s in the full Databahn report on NVIDIA

• Positioning against the incumbent vendor you would replace
• Who to call first, and who to bring in after
• The questions to ask each executive
• The questions NVIDIA’s buyers are likely to ask back

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