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Curtis R. Priem (born ) is an American electrical engineer. After co-founding the Nvidia Corporation, he left the company and sold all of his shares in Nvidia by 2006.
From 1986 to 1993, he was a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he developed the GX graphics chip. He co-founded Nvidia with Jen-Hsun Huang and Chris Malachowsky and was its chief technical officer from 1993 to 2003. He retired from Nvidia in 2003 and sold all of his shares in the company by 2006. In November 2023, Forbes estimated Priem's net worth to be approximately $30 million; if he had retained his shares in Nvidia, Forbes estimated that Priem would have been worth $70 billion.
In 2000, Priem was named Entrepreneur of the Year. Curtis Priem '82 Named Entrepreneur of the Year December 2000. Since 2003 he has been a trustee of Rensselaer, in 2024 becoming the vice chair of the Board. RPI Board of Trustees - Curtis Priem In 2004 he announced that he would donate an unrestricted gift of $40 million to the Institute. Rensselaer subsequently created the EMPAC, named in his honor and usually referred to as "EMPAC" for short. 09.11.04 Rensselaer Announces $1 Billion Capital Campaign — the Largest in the University's History September 2004.
He is also president of the Priem Family Foundation, which he established with his wife Veronica in September, 1999. The foundation is non-operating (i.e., has no office or staff, and therefore, no overhead) and exists only to give money to other foundations or charities.
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