Indian-origin Vaibhav Taneja becomes Tesla's new Chief Financial Officer

Indian-origin Vaibhav Taneja becomes Tesla's new Chief Financial Officer

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: August 10 2023

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  • Indian-origin Vaibhav Taneja is the new Chief Financial Officer of Elon Musk-owned carmaker Tesla.
  • His appointment on 7 August 2023 comes as the previous finance chief Zachary Kirkhorn announced his decision to step down.
  • Taneja comes with more than two decades of accounting experience, having worked with multinational companies in technology, finance, retail, and telecommunications.
  • Forty-five-year-old Taneja is the CFO in addition to his existing role of Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) which he was assigned in March 2019. 
  • He has also been the Corporate Controller at Tesla since May 2018. Prior to this, he was the Assistant Corporate Controller between February 2017 and May 2018.
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