The woman who will lead Tesla after the Musk fiasco

The woman who will lead Tesla after the Musk fiasco

Australian and accountant, Robyn Denholm brings together professional successes wherever she works

  "I'm considering converting Tesla privately to $ 420. Secured financing ». With this tweet, Elon Musk , CEO of Tesla, stirred Twitter on August 7. "Shareholders could sell to 420 or hold shares and leave in private," he added seconds later.

A tweet that he later claimed was all joke, but it was not worth anything to the SEC (the US Securities and Exchange Commission) the explanations of Musk who was accused of fraud and forced to resign as president of the company's vehicles electric

  A change to the steering wheel, but that will keep the eccentric entrepreneur as CEO . The commanders will be, according to experts, a person close to Musk himself, who will be banned from acting as president for the next three years.

As reported by the BBC, the presidency of Tesla arrives a person of confidence of the South African and who now holds a position on the board of directors of the US company for four years.

Her name is Robyn Denholm , an Australian and economist with extensive experience in various companies. Named by Elon Musk, Denholm knows well the insides of the electric company where in 2017 he collected five million dollars thanks to his position on the board of directors of Tesla and also thanks to the shares he owns.

"Robyn has extensive experience in both the technology and automotive sectors and as a member of the board of directors he has made great contributions over the past four years to help us become a profitable company," explained Musk by naming Denholm as his successor at the head of the presidency of the electricity.

Currently, the new president of Tesla works as finance director of Telstra, the telecommunications company of her native country: Australia. During the next months he will maintain his obligations in that company before assuming his new role in the United States where he must have full and exclusive dedication.

"I love being on Tesla's board of directors because it combines many of the things I'm passionate about like energy and technology," Denholm said in an interview in January, months before learning about his new role in the company.

Economist of 55 years, this Australian has been linked to the automotive sector since she was very young. His parents had a gas station in Milperra in southern Australia. There, Denholm got his first job.

Low profile

His passion for economics took him to Sydney, where he also worked as an accountant for Arthur Andersen to move to Toyota Australia. After the Japanese company began its foray into the technology sector to work for the computer Sun Microsystems. A decade in the company that helped him set foot in the United States. A trip that took him to Juniper Networks, which meant a professional takeoff in a world surrounded by men.

In 2016, she was appointed to the Audit Board of the Swiss electric power generation and industrial automation company ABB.

Robyn Denholm is the antithesis of Elon Musk. Calm and low profile in the interviews contrasts with the last public appearances of the South African. In addition, both Musk and the board of directors of Tesla have focused on the successor does not have Twitter, at the moment.

Perhaps the tweeted audience loses one of the main agitators in recent months, but the shareholders of Tesla gain in tranquility in view of the latest developments.