November – Jon Wagner, director of battery engineering, who joined in 2013 exits to launch a battery and powertrain startup in California.
September – Diarmuid O’Connell, vice president of business development, departs.
August – Kurt Kelty, director of battery technology and then one of the longest serving company executives, exits. He led negotiations with Panasonic on the company’s gigafactory in Nevada.
July – SolarCity co-founder Peter Rive leaves the company, eight months after Tesla bought the biggest U.S. residential solar panel maker.
June – Chris Lattner, vice president of autopilot leaves within six months of joining.
June – SolarCity founder Lyndon Rive leaves the electric vehicle maker.
May – Arnnon Geshuri, who led HR at Tesla for more than eight years, departs.
April – Chief Financial Officer Jason Wheeler leaves to pursue public policy projects; replaced by Deepak Ahuja, who served as CFO before Wheeler.
March – Mark Lipscomb, vice president of human resources, departs to join streaming service provider Netflix.
March – Satish Jeyachandran, director of hardware engineering, leaves after seven years with the company; later joins Waymo.
March – David Nister, vice president of autopilot vision, departs to join chipmaker Nvidia.
March – Klaus Grohmann ousted after a clash with CEO Elon Musk over the strategy at Grohmann’s firm, which Tesla had acquired in November. Grohmann Engineering helped companies design highly automated factories.
January – JLM Energy says Ardes Johnson, who worked as director of sales at Tesla Energy, joins as a vice president.
January – Sacks Sterling Anderson, head of Tesla’s autopilot system, and later sues him for trying to recruit company engineers for his new venture while still with the company.
Source : CNBC
