‘Too early’ to talk IPO, Redwood Materials’ incoming CFO says
Key takeaways
- Redwood Materials has finally found a new chief financial officer roughly a year and a half after its last one departed.
- On Monday, Redwood Materials said it has hired former Tesla finance chief Deepak Ahuja as its new CFO.
- But despite Ahuja s many years running Tesla s finances, and a hot IPO market for anything remotely related to AI data centers, he tells TechCrunch that it s too early to talk about going public.
Redwood Materials has finally found a new chief financial officer roughly a year and a half after its last one departed. He s a familiar face to the former Tesla executives running the battery recycling and energy storage company.
On Monday, Redwood Materials said it has hired former Tesla finance chief Deepak Ahuja as its new CFO. Ahuja joins an executive team that includes Tesla s former CTO (JB Straubel, Redwood s founder and CEO) and former Tesla powertrain vice president Colin Campbell (Redwood s CTO), among a number of other Tesla expats throughout the ranks. Most recently, Ahuja was chief finance and business officer at drone company Zipline.
But despite Ahuja s many years running Tesla s finances, and a hot IPO market for anything remotely related to AI data centers, he tells TechCrunch that it s too early to talk about going public.