CFO
Vaibhav Taneja is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Tesla, Inc. He was appointed CFO in August 2023, succeeding Zachary Kirkhorn. Taneja joined Tesla in 2017 after the company acquired SolarCity, where he was the corporate controller. With over two decades of experience in finance and accounting, he is a Chartered Accountant from India and has held key roles at PwC and Tesla.
Before joining Tesla, he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for nearly 17 years.
He became Tesla's Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) in 2019.
He played a key role during Tesla's acquisition of SolarCity.
Vaibhav Taneja is among the few Indian-origin executives to lead a Fortune 500 company’s finance division.
He moved to the United States in the early 2000s to expand his global finance career.