Australian Tesla chair Robyn Denholm has ridden the electric vehicle maker’s rollercoaster to fame and fortune, but can she rein in Elon Musk?
Earlier this month, Ives told Denholm and the Tesla board to rein in Musk. As Tesla’s share price continued to fall, Ives went on American television this week to ask Musk and the Tesla board for three things: the rapid appointment of a fresh CEO for Twitter, as Musk
; an end to “lofty” financial forecasts and the issuing of more realistic guidance; and written guarantees from Musk about when and if he will sell stock.Denholm’s Australian spokeswoman declined interview requests, saying she was travelling, and did not respond to emailed questions. Tesla’s press office did not respond to requests for comment sent via email.
Robyn Mary Assunta Denholm, 59, was born in 1963 to parents who had arrived in Australia from the Mediterranean the decade before. Growing up, she worked in the family’s western Sydney petrol station. Then economics at the University of Sydney, a job at the accountancy Arthur Anderson, then Toyota and in the mid-1990s, computer gear manufacturer Sun Microsystems. The firm, which was then a giant in the industry, offered her a role in America.
“[I was a] newly single mum, with a 13- and eight-year-old and about to move them 10,000 miles away from our family, away from support, to take on a role I wasn’t sure I could do,” DenholmShe made the move, went further up with Sun and then, in 2007, moved to Juniper Networks, a major network equipment maker, where she became chief financial and operating officer.
Elon Musk launches a new Tesla facility in April. From fancy dress and intemperate outbursts online to flirting with conspiracy theories, Musk’s antics have won him legions of admirers who see him as an independent-minded genius. Others think he is a dangerous fool.
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