Technion Alum and CTO Michael Kagan on NVIDIA’s Meteoric Rise
Published by www.calcalistech.com on November 16, 2025.
On Wednesday, October 29, Michael Kagan did not deviate from his planned schedule. He attended the Nvidia conference in Washington along with ten thousand other people. But here and there, between lectures, meetings, and mingling, he received an update: Nvidia’s value had passed the $5 trillion mark, less than four months after reaching $4 trillion. No company has ever reached such a valuation, and Nvidia has held the title of the world’s most valuable company since June 2024. It achieved these numbers in large part thanks to its connection with Israeli company Mellanox, which means it also owes much of this success to Kagan, one of Mellanox’s founders and now Nvidia’s global chief technology officer (CTO), the most senior Israeli at the company.
“I received the update, and I thought about the phrase we’ve been saying since we reached the highest valuation in the world: ‘Play the game and the score will take care of itself,’” Kagan tells Calcalist in an exclusive interview.
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Michael Kagan studied electrical engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, laying the foundation for his role as co-founder of Mellanox and later CTO of Nvidia.
