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Jen-Hsun Huang founded NVIDIA in 1993 and has served since its inception as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board. Since its founding, NVIDIA has pioneered accelerated computing. The Company's invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, and ignited the era of modern AI. NVIDIA is now driving the platform shift of accelerated computing and generative AI, transforming the world's largest industries and profoundly impacting society. Mr. Huang has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering and in 2026 was appointed to the President's Council of Advisors of Science and Technology. He is a recipient of the Semiconductor Industry Association's highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award; the IEEE Founder's Medal; the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award; and honorary doctorate degrees from Taiwan's National Chiao Tung University, National Taiwan University, Oregon State University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Linkoping University. He has been named the world's best CEO by Fortune, the Economist, and Brand Finance, as well as one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people. Prior to founding NVIDIA, Mr. Huang worked at LSI Logic, a semiconductor and software company, and Advanced Micro Devices, a global semiconductor company. He holds a BSEE degree from Oregon State University and an MSEE degree from Stanford University.

Colette M. Kress joined NVIDIA in 2013 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to NVIDIA, Ms. Kress most recently served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Business Technology and Operations Finance organization at Cisco Systems, Inc., a networking equipment company, since 2010. At Cisco, Ms. Kress was responsible for financial strategy, planning, reporting and business development for all business segments, engineering and operations. From 1997 to 2010 Ms. Kress held a variety of positions at Microsoft, a software company, including, beginning in 2006, Chief Financial Officer of the Server and Tools division, where Ms. Kress was responsible for financial strategy, planning, reporting and business development for the division. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ms. Kress spent eight years at Texas Instruments Incorporated, a semiconductor company, where she held a variety of finance positions. Ms. Kress holds a B.S. degree in Finance from University of Arizona and an M.B.A. degree from Southern Methodist University.

Debora Shoquist joined NVIDIA in 2007 as Senior Vice President of Operations and in 2009 became Executive Vice President of Operations. Prior to NVIDIA, Ms. Shoquist served from 2004 to 2007 as Executive Vice President of Operations at JDS Uniphase Corp., a provider of communications test and measurement solutions and optical products for the telecommunications industry. She served from 2002 to 2004 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Electro-Optics business at Coherent, Inc., a manufacturer of commercial and scientific laser equipment. Previously, she worked at Quantum Corp., a data protection company, as President of the Personal Computer Hard Disk Drive Division, and at Hewlett-Packard. Ms. Shoquist holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University and a B.S. degree in Biology from Santa Clara University.

Timothy S. Teter joined NVIDIA in 2017 as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary and became Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary in February 2018. Prior to NVIDIA, Mr. Teter spent more than two decades at the law firm of Cooley LLP, where he focused on litigating patent and technology related matters. Prior to attending law school, he worked as an engineer at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, an aerospace company. Mr. Teter holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Davis and a J.D. degree from Stanford Law School.

Tench Coxe was a Managing Director of Sutter Hill Ventures, a venture capital investment firm, from 1989 to 2020, where he focused on investments in the IT sector. Prior to joining Sutter Hill Ventures in 1987, he was Director of Marketing and MIS at Digital Communication Associates. He was a director of Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc., an institutional money management firm from 1995 to 2025. Mr. Coxe holds a BA degree in Economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.

Dawn Hudson serves on the boards of various companies. From 2014 to 2018, Ms. Hudson served as Chief Marketing Officer for the National Football League. Previously, she served from 2009 to 2014 as Vice Chairman of The Parthenon Group, an advisory firm focused on strategy consulting. She was President and Chief Executive Officer of Pepsi-Cola North America, the beverage division of PepsiCo, Inc. for the U.S. and Canada, from 2005 to 2007 and President from 2002, and simultaneously served as Chief Executive Officer of the foodservice division of PepsiCo, Inc. from 2005 to 2007. Previously, she spent 13 years in marketing, advertising and branding strategy, holding leadership positions at major agencies, such as D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles and Omnicom Group Inc. Ms. Hudson currently serves on the board of directors of a private skincare company and a private consumer diagnostic portfolio company. She was a director of P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc., a restaurant chain, from 2010 to 2012; of Allergan, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, from 2008 to 2014; of Lowes Companies, Inc., a home improvement retailer, from 2001 to 2015; of Amplify Snack Brands, Inc., a snack food company, from 2014 to 2018; of Modern Times Group MTG AB, a gaming company, from 2020 to 2023; and of the Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., an advertising company, from 2011 to 2025. She holds a BA degree in English from Dartmouth College.

Harvey C. Jones has been the Managing Partner of Square Wave Ventures, a private family office, since 2004. Mr. Jones has been an entrepreneur, high technology executive, and active venture investor for over 30 years. In 1981, he co-founded Daisy Systems Corp., a computer-aided engineering company, ultimately serving as its President and Chief Executive Officer until 1987. Between 1987 and 1998, he led Synopsys, Inc., a major electronic design automation company, serving as its Chief Executive Officer for seven years and then as Executive Chairman. In 1997, Mr. Jones co-founded Tensilica Inc., a privately held technology IP company that developed and licensed high performance embedded processing cores. He served as Chairman of the Tensilica board of directors from inception through its 2013 acquisition by Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Mr. Jones holds a BS degree in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from Georgetown University and an MS degree in Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mark A. Stevens has been the Managing Partner of S-Cubed Capital, a private family office investment firm, since 2012. He was a Managing Partner from 1993 to 2011 of Sequoia Capital, a venture capital investment firm, where he had been an associate for the preceding four years. Previously, he held technical sales and marketing positions at Intel Corporation, and was a member of the technical staff at Hughes Aircraft Co. Mr. Stevens is a trustee and the chair of investment committee of the University of Southern California. He was a director of Quantenna Communications, Inc., a provider of Wi-Fi solutions, from 2016 until 2019. Mr. Stevens holds a BSEE degree, a BA degree in Economics and an MS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California, and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.

Stephen C. Neal serves as Chairman Emeritus and Senior Counsel of the law firm Cooley LLP, where he was also Chief Executive Officer from 2001 until 2008. In addition to his extensive experience as a trial lawyer on a broad range of corporate issues, Mr. Neal has represented and advised numerous boards of directors, special committees of boards, and individual directors on corporate governance and other legal matters. Prior to joining Cooley in 1995, Mr. Neal was a partner of the law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Mr. Neal served on the board of directors of Levi Strauss & Co. from 2007 to 2021 and as Chairperson from 2011 to 2021. Mr. Neal also is Chairman of the Oversight Board Trust, a perpetual Delaware special purpose trust. Previously, Mr. Neal served as Chairman of the boards of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Mr. Neal holds an AB degree from Harvard University and a JD degree from Stanford Law School.

Melissa B. Lora has served in several senior executive roles over her 31-year career at Taco Bell Corp., a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., one of the world's largest restaurant companies, including as President of Taco Bell International at her retirement in 2018 and Global Chief Financial and Development Officer at Taco Bell Corp. Ms. Lora served on the board of directors of KB Home, a homebuilding company, from 2004 to April 2024, and was a Lead Independent Director thereof from 2016. She was the chair of the audit committee from 2008 to 2018 at KB Home. She has served on the board of directors of Conagra Brands, Inc., a consumer packaged goods holding company, since 2019 and is the chair of the nominating and corporate governance committee and a member of the human resources committee and the executive committee. Ms. Lora previously served on the board of directors of MGIC Investment Corporation from 2018 to 2022. Ms. Lora holds a BS degree in Finance from California State University-Long Beach and an MBA degree emphasizing Corporate Finance from the University of Southern California. Other Current Public Company Boards: Conagra Brands, Inc. (since 2019).

A. Brooke Seawell has served since 2005 as a Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates, and was a Partner from 2000 to 2005 at Technology Crossover Ventures. He was Executive Vice President from 1997 to 1998 at NetDynamics, Inc., an application server software company, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems, Inc. He was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1991 to 1997 of Synopsys, Inc., an electronic design automation software company. He serves on the board of directors of Tenable Holdings, Inc., a cybersecurity company, and one privately held company. Mr. Seawell served on the board of directors and as audit chair of Glu Mobile, Inc., a publisher of mobile games, from 2006 to 2014, of Informatica Corp., a data integration software company, from 1997 to 2015, of Tableau Software, Inc., a business intelligence software company, from 2011 to 2019, and of Eargo, Inc., a medical device company, from 2020 to 2022. In 2024, the National Association of Corporate Directors named Mr. Seawell as one of the Top 100 directors in the nation. He also previously served as a member of the Stanford University Athletic Board and on the Management Board of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Seawell holds a BA degree in Economics and an MBA degree in Finance from Stanford University. Other Current Public Company Boards: Tenable Holdings, Inc. (since 2017).

Aarti Shah serves on the boards of various companies and non-profit organizations. Dr. Shah worked at Eli Lilly and Company for 27 years until 2021 and served in several functional and business leadership roles, most recently as Senior Vice President and Chief Information and Digital Officer, as well as Senior Statistician, Research Scientist, Vice President for Biometrics, and Global Brand Development Leader in Lilly's Bio-Medicines business unit. Dr. Shah has served on the board and as a member of the science, innovation & development committee and human capital and ESG committee of Sandoz Group AG, a pharmaceutical company, since 2023. Dr. Shah has served on the board of trustees and as a member of the audit committee and distribution and technology committee of Northwestern Mutual since 2020, a financial services organization. Dr. Shah serves on the board, strategic planning committee, and global and technology committee of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities (ALSAC), a non-profit organization. She also serves as the secretary and a trustee of the non-profit organization, Shrimad Rajchandra Mission Dharampur USA. She served on the Indianapolis Public Library Foundation board for the full term of 9 years and on the Center for Interfaith Cooperation for the full term of 4 years. Dr. Shah received her BS and MS degrees in Statistics and Mathematics in India before completing her PhD degree in Applied Statistics from the University of California, Riverside. Other Current Public Company Boards: Sandoz Group AG (since 2023).

John O. Dabiri is the Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He is a recipient of the National Medal of Science, a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant, the National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He heads the Dabiri Lab, which conducts research at the intersections of fluid mechanics, energy and environment, and biology. From 2021 to January 2025, he served on President Biden's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and Energy Secretary Granholm's Energy Advisory Board (SEAB). From 2015 to 2019, he served as a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, where he was recognized with the Eugene L. Grant Award for Excellence in Teaching. From 2005 to 2015, he was a Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology, during which time he also served as Director of the Center for Bioinspired Wind Energy, Chair of the Faculty, and Dean of Students. Dr. Dabiri is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, where he previously served as Chair of the Division of Fluid Dynamics. He also serves on the board of trustees of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and previously served as a member of the National Academies' Committee on Science, Technology, and Law. Dr. Dabiri holds a PhD degree in Bioengineering and an MS degree in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology, and a BSE degree summa cum laude in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University.

On July 1, 2026, the Company appointed Nicholas Parker, as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations of the Company, effective August 24, 2026. Mr. Parker will join the Company after 26 years at Microsoft Corporation and brings a combination of industry knowledge and business acumen as the Company works to extend its global leadership in AI infrastructure and expand the ecosystem. He most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Microsoft's Worldwide Sales & Solutions organization from 2025 to 2026, where he was responsible for operating the commercial business for enterprise, small and medium business and consumer customers. He also served as President, Industry & Partner Sales from 2022 to 2025, and Vice President, Global Partner Solutions from 2020 to 2022.

On May 7, 2026, the Board of Directors, or the Board, of NVIDIA Corporation appointed Suzanne Nora Johnson as a member of the Board effective July 13, 2026. Nora Johnson, 68, holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of Southern California. She serves on the board of directors of Pfizer Inc., where she is chair of the Audit Committee, a member of the Executive Committee and a member of the Regulatory & Compliance Committee. She also recently stepped down as the Board Chair of Intuit Inc., where she had served on the board of directors since 2007.

On April 26, 2026, the Company appointed Scott Gawel, age 55, as VP and CAO of the Company, effective upon the commencement of his employment with the Company on May 4, 2026. In this role, he will serve as the Company's principal accounting officer. Mr. Gawel will join the Company from Intel Corporation, a global designer and manufacturer of semiconductor products. From 2022 to 2026, he served as Corporate VP and CAO of Intel. From 2020 to 2022, he served as Senior VP and Corporate Controller of Oracle Corporation, a software and technology company. He served as Oracle's Senior VP and Assistant Controller from 2017 to 2020, VP, Corporate Accounting from 2009 to 2017, and Senior Director, Corporate Accounting from 2004 to 2009.