{"id":23686,"date":"2023-08-07T19:30:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T19:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/107282690"},"modified":"2023-08-07T19:30:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T19:30:04","slug":"tesla-cfo-zach-kirkhorn-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/tesla-cfo-zach-kirkhorn-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla CFO Zach Kirkhorn steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/tesla-cfo-zach-kirkhorn-steps-down.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-105794208\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Zachary Kirkhorn, CFO, Tesla<\/p>\n<p>Source: Tesla<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p><span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Tesla<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>&#8216;s chief financial officer, Zach Kirkhorn, stepped down from his position effective Friday, the automaker announced Monday morning in a regulatory filing. Tesla&#8217;s chief accounting officer, Vaibhav Taneja, was appointed as the new CFO and will hold both roles concurrently.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Tesla were trading down nearly 3% on the news.<\/p>\n<p>Kirkhorn will stay on with Tesla through the end of the year to assist in the transition, according to a <span class=\"waslinkname\">Securities and Exchange Commission filing.<\/span> Kirkhorn had served as CFO since March 2019 and had worked for Tesla since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I shift my responsibilities to support this transition, I want to thank the talented, passionate, and hard-working employees at Tesla, who have accomplished things many thought not possible,&#8221; Kirkhorn <span class=\"waslinkname\">wrote<\/span> on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>Kirkhorn&#8217;s departure marks the second CFO replacement at Tesla in just over four years. When prior finance chief <span class=\"waslinkname\">Deepak Ahuja left Tesla<\/span> in 2019, the company&#8217;s shares dipped as much as 4.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Taneja, Kirkhorn&#8217;s successor and Tesla&#8217;s chief accounting officer, has been with the automaker since 2017. He worked for SolarCity before joining Tesla, by way of the automaker&#8217;s $2.6 billion acquisition of the solar installer. Before that, Taneja was employed at PwC for about 17 years. PwC is Tesla&#8217;s auditor.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This story is developing. Check back for updates.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zachary Kirkhorn, CFO, Tesla Source: Tesla Tesla&#8216;s chief financial officer, Zach Kirkhorn, stepped down from his position effective Friday, the automaker announced Monday morning in a regulatory filing. Tesla&#8217;s chief accounting officer, Vaibhav Taneja, was appointed as the new CFO and will hold both roles concurrently. Shares of Tesla were trading down nearly 3% on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23686"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=23686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}