Impact

As our Chief Executive Officer, one of our founders and our largest shareholder, Mr. Musk brings historical knowledge, operational and technical expertise and continuity to the Board. Mr. Musk guided Tesla from an early-stage startup, through its IPO in 2010, to transformative growth into one of the most valuable companies in the world. Mr. Musk’s leadership and unique vision to build the world’s next generation of sustainable and accessible innovation has played a key role in our mission to build a world of amazing abundance.

Career Highlights

Mr. Musk has served as our Chief Executive Officer since October 2008. Mr. Musk has also served as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technical Officer and Chairman of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, a company which develops and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft (“SpaceX”), since May 2002 and served as Chairman of the Board of SolarCity Corporation, a solar installation company (“SolarCity”), from July 2006 until its acquisition by us in November 2016. He has served as Chief Technology Officer and on the Board of X Corp., a social media company (“X”), since October 2022, and has served as the Chief Executive Officer and on the Board of X.AI Corp., an artificial intelligence company (“xAI”), since March 2023, in each case through the March 2025 merger of X and xAI. Following the March 2025 merger of X and xAI, he served as the President, Treasurer and Chief Executive Officer and on the board of directors of X.AI Holdings Corp. (“xAI Holdings”), which later became a subsidiary of SpaceX in February 2026.

Mr. Musk is also a founder of The Boring Company (“TBC”), an infrastructure company, and Neuralink Corp., a company focused on developing brain-machine interfaces, where he serves as the Chief Executive Officer. Prior to SpaceX, Mr. Musk co-founded PayPal, an electronic payment system, which was acquired by eBay in October 2002, and Zip2 Corporation, a provider of Internet enterprise software and services, which was acquired by Compaq in March 1999. Mr. Musk also served on the board of directors of Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. from April 2021 to June 2022.

Mr. Musk holds a B.A. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Business from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.