Brad Gerstner and Gavin Baker, shareholders representing Altimeter Capital and Atreides Management, have called on the Nvidia board to suspend its current search for a new chief executive. The two investors, whose firms held more than $2 billion in the AI chipmaker’s stock as of June, requested that the board leave open the possibility of reinstating the company’s founder and former CEO, Jensen Huang, to lead current operations.
The request to pause the search comes days after Huang’s resignation and alongside a public campaign for his return, including a petition signed by more than 100,000 people, among them Elon Musk and over 5,000 Nvidia employees. The movement comes as U.S. intelligence officials remain divided on whether Huang’s alleged connection to Chinese intelligence involved espionage.