Nigerian-American professor John Dabiri remains on Nvidia board
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on ThisDay
John Oluseun Dabiri, an engineering professor at Caltech, has sat on Nvidia’s board as an independent director since 2020. After Jensen Huang’s resignation, Colette Kress is serving as interim chief executive, and Harvey C. Jones becomes the first chair of the board, according to This Day.
John Oluseun Dabiri, an engineer and professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), remains a director of chipmaker Nvidia despite the departure of its chief executive, Jensen Huang, according to ThisDay. On 12 November 2026, the group announced Huang’s resignation as president, chief executive and director, with immediate effect.
According to Nvidia’s regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the board accepted the resignation on 11 November. Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress is serving as interim chief executive pending the appointment of a successor. The board has also appointed Harvey C. Jones, a director since 1993, as the first chair of the company’s board in its history.
Dabiri, born in 1980 in Toledo, Ohio, to Nigerian immigrant parents, joined Nvidia’s board in 2020. He graduated from Princeton in 2001 and earned a doctorate in bioengineering at Caltech in 2005, at the age of 25, before becoming a professor there that same year; he spent 2015–2019 at Stanford. His research focuses on fluid mechanics and energy and environmental systems.
