INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Tesla announced a number of new hires today, including Stuart Bowers, who is joining as VP of engineering
Bowers is joining Tesla from Snap, where he worked as VP of monetization engineering.Other new hires include Neeraj Manrao, who left Apple
to become Tesla director of energy manufacturing, and Kevin Mukai, who is now director of product engineering at Tesla Gigafactory.
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excited to welcome a group of such talented people as we continue to ramp Model 3 and accelerate towards a more sustainable future,& Tesla
&We&ll be announcing more hires in the coming days, so stay tuned.
These new hires come following a couple of departures
In April, Tesla VP of Autopilot Jim Keller left for Intel,with Pete Bannon serving as Keller replacement
Bannon is a former Apple chip engineer who helped design Apple A5-AP chips
Earlier this month, Sameer Qureshi left a senior manager Autopilot role at Tesla to lead Lyft autonomous driving efforts.
Here the full list
of new hires, via Tesla blog:
Stuart Bowers is joining as VP of Engineering, responsible for a broad range of Tesla software and hardware
Stuart has 12 years of software experience and a background in applied mathematics, and is joining Tesla from Snap
There, he was most recently VP of Monetization Engineering, leading the team with a focus on machine learning and ad infrastructure
Prior to Snap, Stuart was the eighth engineer hired at Facebook Seattle office where he worked on data infrastructure and machine learning
for search.
Neeraj Manrao has joined Tesla as Director of Energy Manufacturing
Neeraj comes from Apple, where he led the technical operations team.
Kevin Mukai has started as Director of Production Engineering at
Kevin was most recently at ThinFilm Electronics, where he served as Senior Director of Process Engineering, and before that at SunPower as
Director of Process Equipment Engineering
Kevin has extensive experience in advanced factory design and development.
James Zhou started last month as CFO, China
James previously served as CFO for Asia Pacific and India for Ingersoll Rand, and prior to that held a number of financial leadership
positions at General Electric and General Motors.
Alexandra Veitch joined last month as Senior Director for North American Government
Alexandra comes to Tesla from CSRA
Before that, she served as Special Assistant to the President and Legislative Affairs Liaison in the White House under the Obama
Her government service also includes time at the Department of Homeland Security and as a staff member in both the United States Senate and
House of Representatives.
Kate Pearson is our new Director of Field Delivery Operations
She previously worked as VP of Digital Acceleration at Walmart eCommerce, where she led online grocery and last-mile delivery.
Mark
Mastandrea started earlier this month as Director, Vehicle Delivery Operations
He comes from Amazon, where he was their Director of Logistics Operations, leading last-mile delivery in North America and working on the
design and development of AmazonFresh pickup.
Myriam Attou recently started as Regional Sales Director in EMEA
Coming from La Perla, and before that Burberry, she has a long track record of delivering strong results in sales, customer experience and
