Tesla Motors has hired Ze’ev Driori as its new CEO. Michael Marks, former CEO of Flextronics (and Tesla investor) has been the interim CEO.
From the Press Release:
The first company he founded was Monolithic Memories, a Silicon Valley semiconductor firm that pioneered fundamental advances in memory and logic technology, before being acquired by AMD in 1987. Under his leadership, Monolithic introduced programmable read-only memory (PROM) and programmable array logic (PAL), which revolutionized many aspects of computer and electronic systems technology. As CEO through 1981, Ze’ev was responsible for R&D, manufacturing, marketing, finance, world wide sales and overseas operations for product assembly. Ze’ev served as chairman of the board from 1981 through 1987.
While Ze’ev clearly has the track record to take on Tesla’s challenge (and it certainly is a big challenge), I had anticipated a longer tenure for Michael Marks. I thought Marks had some great experiences that the company could build on to bring them to commercialization.
Ze’ev, however, sounds like a great person for the job. They have searched for this position for quite some time and it looks like they’ve found a winner.
