While Elon Musk is more concerned with what music will be played inside the night clubs of his Martian colony, Tesla’s top executives continue to flee his all too terrestrial company, and in just the last few days the electric automaker- which continues to burn unprecedented amounts of cash – lost its two top financial executives.
According to Bloomberg, Tesla’s corporate treasurer and vice president of finance, Susan Repo, quit to become the CFO of another company, just days after Chief Accounting Officer Eric Branderiz parted ways for personal reasons last week, the company disclosed.
Bloomberg’s attempts to reach Repo, who joined Tesla in 2013 according to her LinkedIn profile, were not successful, while the person who confirmed her departure wasn’t authorized to speak publicly and asked not to be named.
In addition to Repo and Branderiz, Jon McNeill, Tesla’s president of global sales and service, also left the company to become the COO of Lyft in February. Musk said at the time that McNeill’s department would report directly to him and that there were no plans to search for a replacement.
The departure of Tesla’s former CFO Jason Wheeler in April of last year launched an avalanche of executive departures from ridiculously cash burning automaker. Since then, other prominent management departures reported by Bloomberg and others have included Lyndon and Peter Rive, Musk’s cousins who had joined him in co-founding SolarCity; Chris Lattner, an Apple hire who left after leading Tesla’s Autopilot engineering team for less than six months; Kurt Kelty, a longtime battery executive; and Diarmuid O’Connell, vice president of business development.
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