Kingsley Gate Partners, LLC

Let's continue our coverage of Nvidia after the resignation of CEO Jensen Huang.

Let's welcome in Umesh Ramakrishnan, co-founder and chief strategy officer over at Kingsley Gate.

So Colette Kress, the CFO, a good replacement for now, makes sense?

For now, as in for the next five days, Sam, there's no doubt that one of the issues that caused the board to put her in this place is that just this little earnings call on Tuesday.

He started at Egon Zender and Korn Ferry, and the very first search he ever ran was a CEO search for Vinod Khosla at Kleiner Perkins.

He moved to Israel in 2005, built Everest Search with Noam Eisenberg over 11 years, sold it to Kingsley Gate about five minutes before COVID, and then spent three years as a partner at Viola, focused on human capital across the entire operation.

Now he's back on the search side, working directly with founders.

He's one of my closest friends here in Israel, which is why I keep calling him Yitzi.

partners to various different funds, was doing a lot of work for the portfolio.

In early to mid 2021, so we're now like a year plus into COVID and everybody coming out of the stupor of like, hey, can we do business in this fashion? We had already been acquired.

My partner and I in our firm, we're all part of this global firm called Kingsley Gate.

But Viola showed up and said, hey, there was a moment there in early to mid 2021 where a lot of VCs all around the world took value creation to another level.