Signage forward of the Nvidia Reside occasion at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Jan. 5, 2026.
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Nvidia director Persis Drell, an engineering professor at Stanford, resigned on Wednesday after simply over a decade on the chipmaker’s board of administrators, the corporate stated in a submitting with the SEC on Friday.
Drell, 70, stepped all the way down to pursue a “new skilled alternative,” Nvidia stated, and never due to a disagreement with firm or any matter associated to its operations or insurance policies.
Drell, who served on the compensation committee, is the primary Nvidia board member to depart since astronaut Ellen Ochoa resigned in June. The board now has 10 administrators, together with CEO Jensen Huang.
Drell owns near 143,000 Nvidia shares, price about $26 million, in response to the newest holdings report. She was paid about $344,000 for her work with Nvidia final yr, together with virtually $259,000 in inventory awards, the corporate’s annual report stated.
Nvidia’s inventory worth is up over 22,000% because the finish of 2015, rising as essentially the most worthwhile firm on the planet because of the unreal intelligence growth. Drell bought about 40,000 shares final yr.
Drell has been a professor at Stanford since 2002, serving because the dean of the engineering faculty from 2014 to 2017 and as Stanford’s provost from 2017 to 2023. She was additionally director of Stanford’s particle accelerator, known as SLAC, from 2007 to 2012.
Correction: This story has been revised to replicate that Persis Drell is 70 years previous. A earlier model misstated her age.
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