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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers. As of August 4, 2023, Tesla, Inc. (“Tesla”) a
by freedude 3y ago
Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers.
As of August 4, 2023, Tesla, Inc. (“Tesla”) appointed Vaibhav Taneja as Chief Financial Officer in addition to his current role as Chief Accounting Officer, to succeed Zachary Kirkhorn. Mr. Kirkhorn stepped down as of August 4, after a thirteen-year tenure with the company, the last four years of which he has served as Master of Coin and Chief Financial Officer. During his tenure, Tesla has seen tremendous expansion and growth. Tesla thanks Mr. Kirkhorn for his significant contributions. Mr. Kirkhorn will continue to serve Tesla through the end of the year to support a seamless transition.
Prior to this appointment as CFO, Mr. Taneja, 45, served as Tesla’s Chief Accounting Officer since March 2019, as Corporate Controller from May 2018, and as Assistant Corporate Controller between February 2017 and May 2018. Mr. Taneja served in various finance and accounting roles at SolarCity Corporation from March 2016. Prior to that, Mr. Taneja was employed at PricewaterhouseCoopers in both India and the U.S. between July 1999 and March 2016.
- bawolff 3y agoFor anyone else wondering, the master of the coin title is just musk being trying to be cute https://winteriscoming.net/2021/03/16/tesla-executive-officially-changes-title-master-coin-elon-musk-game-of-thrones/ https://winteriscoming.net/2021/03/16/tesla-executive-offici... . For a moment i was wondering if that was an actual common corporate title.
- kccqzy 3y agoAlso mentioned in your link: He also named himself technoking in addition to CEO.
- justapassenger 3y agoIt was more of an attempt to get another day of media attention, and to make some bucks during crypto/investment craze of COVID times, by presenting themselves as a “cool company”.
- toolz 3y agoMaybe more charitably stated, it's a fun title to break the monotony of common titles. Surely just because we disagree with musk on other decisions we don't have to denigrate some harmless fun. I welcome the day where we treat business less seriously.
- TylerE 3y agoI'm sure the reams of people Musk pushed out at his various companies are just rollin' in the aisles over that one.
- bluefishinit 3y agoOr any of the Tesla workers that have been subject to the company's culture of racism: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-25/black-tesla-employees-fremont-plant-racism-california-lawsuit https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-25/black-tesl...
- _ea1k 3y agoThat likely generalizes to all the ones that are overworked and underpaid too. Fair point.
- hypeit 3y ago> I welcome the day where we treat business less seriously. Teslas can and do kill people. Taking business "less seriously" is how you do things like remove lidar and label the hobbled driver assist as "full self-driving". I doubt people who have had family members killed by a Tesla think these titles are cute and "fun".
- blitz_skull 3y ago[flagged]
- hypeit 3y agoI don't trust the car to drive itself. I wouldn't trust a Musk car in any capacity! The problem is when some Musk fanboy plows through people because FSD goes haywire. That's not social darwinism, that's manslaughter.