Tesla CTO JB Straubel transitions to Senior Advisor role, names VP of Tech as successor

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During Tesla’s second-quarter earnings call, CEO Elon Musk announced that longtime Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel will be stepping back from his active duties and taking a senior advisor role from the electrical vehicle manufacturer. Taking his place as Tesla’s full-time CTO would be Vice President of Technology Drew Baglino, that also boasts a long tenure with the business. 

While his departure from his active post as CTO arrived as a surprise, Straubel was swift to figure out that he isn’t disappearing from Tesla. Together with his senior advisor role, he will still be working on a number of Tesla’s bleeding edge initiatives, particularly the ones that demand new technology and innovations. Straubel even remarked that he’s quite eager to keep working on numerous endeavors. 

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“I’m not disappearing, and I only wanted to make sure that people know that this was not some, you know, lack of confidence in the business, or the group, or anything like that. I really like that the Tesla group,” he explained, adding that he has complete confidence in the capacities of his successor, Drew Baglino. 

Baglino, for his part, noted that it would not be a simple task living around Straubel’s legacy. “I’ll only say, you know, of course, big, big shoes to fill,” Baglino said. 

While discussing Straubel’s departure from his active CTO post and his years with the company, Musk sounded notably psychological. Both guys, after all, have been with Tesla because its first days — Straubel function as engineer behind the company’s battery technology and Musk being the company’s chief investor. Prior to his job in Tesla, Musk had already been financing Straubel’s research in lithium-ion batteries for electrical vehicles. 

The longtime CEO’s transition to a senior advisory function comes as the 2nd C-suite shift in the provider. Before this year, longtime CFO Deepak Ahuja announced his (second) retirement out of Tesla, naming the young yet veteran worker Zach Kirkhorn because his successor.

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