Redwood Materials hires former Tesla CFO Deepak Ahuja
Key takeaways
- His history with Tesla stretches back to 2008, when he first came aboard and shepherded the automaker to a public listing two years later.
- JB Straubel launched the Carson City, Nevada-based company in 2017; he had simultaneously held the role of Tesla CTO until stepping down from that position in July 2019.
- Ahuja fills a seat that sat vacant for well over a year; his predecessor, Jason Thompson, departed in December 2024 to take a role at The Nuclear Company in Reno, according to CNBC.
Redwood Materials hires former Tesla CFO Deepak Ahuja Quartz · Bloomberg / Getty Images Cris Tolomia Tue, May 12, 2026 at 8:12 PM GMT+7 2 min read TSLA REMA.PVT ZIPL.PVT Redwood Materials has hired Deepak Ahuja, a former CFO of Tesla, as its new finance chief, the company said Monday.
His history with Tesla stretches back to 2008, when he first came aboard and shepherded the automaker to a public listing two years later. A resignation in 2015 was followed by a return engagement that ran from March 2017 until March 2019, CNBC reported. After Tesla, he served as CFO of Verily Life Sciences before joining drone delivery company Zipline as chief business and financial officer.
JB Straubel launched the Carson City, Nevada-based company in 2017; he had simultaneously held the role of Tesla CTO until stepping down from that position in July 2019. Its core business involves processing spent EV battery packs and factory scrap into materials for new cells, and the company has since moved into developing stationary storage systems powered by second-life batteries pulled from retired vehicles.