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Tesla, Inc. 8-k filing – CFO leaves Tesla

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Re: Tesla, Inc. 8-k filing – CFO leaves Tesla

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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”) 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.

Re: Tesla, Inc. 8-k filing – CFO leaves Tesla

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Post by bawolff »

freedude wrote: post #2

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…

For 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-offici... . For a moment i was wondering if that was an actual common corporate title.

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Post by kccqzy »

bawolff wrote: post #3
freedude wrote: post #2

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…

For 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-offici... . For a moment i was wondering if that was an actual common corporate title.

Also mentioned in your link: He also named himself technoking in addition to CEO.

Re: Tesla, Inc. 8-k filing – CFO leaves Tesla

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Post by zgluck »

gabrielsroka wrote: post #4

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000095017023...

That was 4 days ago and this is the first we hear of it?

This - 9 hours ago:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-cfo-kirkhorn-steps-down...

Tesla CFO Kirkhorn steps down, replaced by chief accounting officer Vaibhav Taneja

Kirkhorn stepped down after a 13-year run at Tesla.

(HN is slow.)

Re: Tesla, Inc. 8-k filing – CFO leaves Tesla

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Post by LightBug1 »

zgluck wrote: post #5

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1688662299857321984 I would like to thank Zach Kirkhorn for his many contributions to Tesla over the course of 13 often difficult years. Much appreciated and best wishes for the next stage of his career.

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