Tesla: the successor of Elon Musk, Robyn Denholm

"I would like to thank Robyn for joining the team." "Great respect, I look forward to working with you."

Tesla CEO Elon Musk welcomed his new boss, Roby Denholm, on Thursday. For five days, the Tesla stock charts remained on the spot to announce the future composition of the board chair. That was part of the deal that Tesla had signed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. During the removal from the list, Tesla was accused of alleging that Musk deliberately misled investors and manipulated the courts.

Now musk has to give up some of its power. He retains the position of CEO at the Tesla Stock Market Chart Show. However, he is forced to give up the additional position of president he has held for 14 years.

Denholm does not badume this work. Aged 55, he has been a member of the Tesla Board of Directors since 2014 as Chief Financial Officer.

It's like having to evaluate a movie outside of a movie theater. At the beginning of the year, she summarized her work in an interview. "From time to time, someone must come and tell you what's going on in the movie and how it could happen."

The Australian has come as outsider to the automaker

With Denholm, the choice is focused on one of the most independent board members. Unlike, for example, Kimbal, Musk's brother, or venture capital Steve Jurvetson, the native Australian appeared largely as an outsider of the automaker. However, he has considerable experience, not only in the fields of technology and finance, but also in the automotive sector – and many years of experience in relations with the SEC.

Daughter of a service station owner from Sydney's suburbs, Denholm studied economics, accounting, and commerce at the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales. developed an enthusiasm for the screws.

Denholm began his career in the mid-1980s with Arthur Anderson, before appearing on the Toyota Stock Market Chart in 1989, and then moving to Sun Microsystems Australia for eleven years. For Sun, she then traveled to Silicon Valley with her husband and two children for about two decades. She first worked for Sun, and then for nine years – most notably as a CFO – in Juniper Networks network equipment, where sales more than doubled.