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

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.