Tesla will appoint the former CTO to the company’s board of directors

Tesla is going to appoint J.B. Straubel, the CEO and founder of e-waste recycling company Redwood Materials, to the company’s board, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday. Straubel founded his recycling venture in Carson City, Nevada, while still serving as Tesla’s CTO in 2017, and left the automaker to focus on it in 2019.

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Straubel is considered a co-founder of Tesla due to his engineering and operational leadership from the company’s inception. He joined the company in 2004 – long before Elon Musk took the reins as CEO. Among other things, Straubel oversaw the construction of Tesla’s first battery factory outside Reno, Nevada.