Deepak Ahuja, Tesla CFO (remaining) and Elon Musk, Tesla founder and CEO (proper), at the Nasdaq opening bell ceremony for the Tesla original public supplying on Tuesday, June 29, 2010.
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Former Tesla CFO Deepak Ahuja will sign up for Zipline’s management crew as the company’s chief enterprise officer and CFO, Zipline announced Friday.
Zipline is a Silicon Valley-centered robotics company that delivers materials to difficult-to-arrive at spots making use of drones. It originally targeted on clinical provides, but is growing into e-commerce and meals delivery. The corporation has beforehand partnered with the Rwandan governing administration to supply health-related provides and handled Covid-19 vaccine distribution in Ghana, and has expanded operations from 3 to 7 nations around the world over the very last two several years, according to a release.
Ahuja served as the CFO of Tesla from March 2017 to March 2019, but he very first joined the corporation in 2008. He was with Tesla when it went community in 2010 and briefly still left in the organization 2015.
Ahuja will be part of Zipline on Sept. 30.
“Not often do I see this stage of disruption and affect paired with the globe-course know-how that Zipline’s team is making,” Ahuja stated in a release. “It truly is an thrilling time for Zipline, and I’m thrilled to join the workforce as we continue to keep constructing to supply these solutions at a large scale.”
