Arnnon Geshuri (born 1969 or 1970
) is an American
corporate executive
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. He was vice president of
human resources
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at
Tesla, Inc.
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from 2009 until 2017, senior director of human resources and staffing at
Google
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from 2004 to 2009, and vice president of people operations and director of global staffing at
E-Trade Financial Corporation circa 2002. In January 2016, he briefly served on the
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., or Wikimedia for short and abbreviated as WMF, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California and registered as a charitable foundation under local laws. Best kno ...
's board of trustees before stepping down after
opposition arose due to his involvement in
anti-competitive employer collusion in
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical areas San Mateo County ...
.
Personal life
Geshuri was born in 1969 or 1970.
His father, Yosef Geshuri, is a
clinical psychologist
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with a Ph.D. in
psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...
.
In Arnnon Geshuri's early life, his father worked at
Northwest Missouri State University
Northwest Missouri State University is a public university in Maryville, Missouri. It has an enrollment of about 8,505 students. Founded in 1905 as a teachers college, its campus is based on the design for Forest Park at the 1904 St. Louis Worl ...
in
Maryville, Missouri
Maryville is a city and county seat of Nodaway County, Missouri, United States. Located in the "Missouri Point" region, As of the 2020 census, the city population was 10,633. Maryville is home to Northwest Missouri State University and Northwes ...
, and he attended elementary school there at the university until the fifth or sixth grade.
In 1980 his family moved to
Porterville, California
Porterville is a city in the San Joaquin Valley, in Tulare County, California, Tulare County, California, United States. It is part of the Visalia Metropolitan Area, Visalia-Porterville metropolitan statistical area.
Since its incorporation in 1 ...
, a small town in
central California's San Joaquin Valley
The San Joaquin Valley ( ; es, Valle de San Joaquín) is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies south of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the San Joaquin River. It comprises seven c ...
, where he attended high school and a community college. He has a younger brother Oren and an older sister Dorrit, both of whom also graduated with university degrees. Geshuri was described in a local newspaper article as loving Porterville and glad to have been raised in a small town, saying "I'm proud of where I'm from."
He said that during high school he had already planned to work for a large company, saying he was "interested in how people work and how big corporations work", so he "wanted to work in a big corporation and understand human behavior in the corporate setting".
His wife's name is Rebecca Geshuri. They were married in 1997 or 1998.
Education
Geshuri graduated from
Monache High School
Monache High School is one of the three high schools located in Porterville, California, United States and is part of the Porterville Unified School District (PUSD). It's the city's second high school and as of 2021 serves approximately 2,583 st ...
in 1987, and
Porterville College
Porterville College is a public community college in Porterville, California. It was established in 1927.
Notable alumni and faculty
* Wayne Hardin
Irving Wayne Hardin (March 23, 1926 – April 12, 2017) was an American football player and co ...
in 1989.
He received a
bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...
in
psychology
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from the
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...
, and a
master's degree
A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice. in
industrial and organizational psychology
Industrial and organizational psychology (I-O psychology), an applied discipline within psychology, is the science of human behavior in the workplace. Depending on the country or region of the world, I-O psychology is also known as occupational ...
from
San Jose State University
San José State University (San Jose State or SJSU) is a public university in San Jose, California. Established in 1857, SJSU is the oldest public university on the West Coast and the founding campus of the California State University (CSU) sys ...
.
Career and controversies
E-Trade and earlier career
Geshuri was the Vice President of People Operations and Director of Global Staffing at
E-Trade Financial Corporation.
He also worked at
Applied Materials
Applied Materials, Inc. is an American corporation that supplies equipment, services and software for the manufacture of semiconductor (integrated circuit) chips for electronics, flat panel displays for computers, smartphones, televisions, and s ...
(a major supplier of equipment and services for
high-technology
High technology (high tech), also known as advanced technology (advanced tech) or exotechnology, is technology that is at the cutting edge: the highest form of technology available. It can be defined as either the most complex or the newest te ...
manufacturing), was an organizational effectiveness consultant for
New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (an automobile manufacturing joint venture of
General Motors
The General Motors Company (GM) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is the largest automaker in the United States and ...
and
Toyota
is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on . Toyota is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, producing about 10 ...
that was purchased by Tesla in 2010 to become the
Tesla Factory
The Tesla Fremont Factory is an automobile manufacturing plant in Fremont, California, operated by Tesla, Inc. The facility opened as General Motors' Fremont Assembly in 1962, and was later operated by NUMMI, a GM–Toyota joint venture. Tes ...
), and in 2002 he co-founded ACI Technical (Analytical and Control Instrumentation Technical Services, a
startup company
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for analysis of water and gas quality based in
Edenvale, Gauteng
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,
South Africa
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).
Google and "Do Not Call" non-recruiting policy (2004–09)
He was the senior director of human resources and staffing at
Google
Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...
,
where he worked from 2004 to 2009
and oversaw all aspects of recruitment.
While working at Google, Geshuri was involved in activities that later became the subject of the
High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation
High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation is a 2010 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action and a 2013 civil class action against several Silicon Valley companies for alleged "no cold call" agreements which restrained the recruitm ...
case that resulted in a settlement of $415 million paid by
Adobe
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,
Apple
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, Google and
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...
.
In one incident, after hearing of a complaint from
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur, industrial designer, media proprietor, and investor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple; the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar; a ...
of Apple, Geshuri told Google's chairman
Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and software engineer known for being the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, executive chairman of Google from 2011 to 2015, executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 20 ...
that a recruiter for Google who had tried to hire an Apple employee would be "terminated within the hour" for the action, pursuant to what Schmidt called "a policy of no recruiting from Apple".
Geshuri said that such terminations were taking place "every six months or so", despite efforts to make sure recruiters were aware of the policy.
Geshuri maintained what he called a "Do Not Call list" of companies Google would avoid recruiting from.
Tesla (2009–17)
He was the
vice president
A vice president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vice president is on t ...
of
human resources
Human resources (HR) is the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy. A narrower concept is human capital, the knowledge and skills which the individuals command. Similar terms include m ...
at
Tesla Inc.
Tesla, Inc. ( or ) is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Tesla designs and manufactures electric vehicles ( electric cars and trucks), battery energy storage from home to gr ...
from November 2009. Geshuri said the company was committed to bringing manufacturing jobs "back to California".
In 2015, Geshuri led a hiring spree for Tesla. Geshuri placed an emphasis on hiring
military veterans
A veteran () is a person who has significant experience (and is usually adept and esteemed) and expertise in a particular occupation or field. A military veteran is a person who is no longer serving in a military.
A military veteran that has ...
in large numbers.
He left Tesla in May 2017, with Tesla saying he would be "taking a short break before moving on to a new endeavor".
Wikimedia Foundation (January 2016)
Geshuri was appointed to the
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., or Wikimedia for short and abbreviated as WMF, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California and registered as a charitable foundation under local laws. Best kno ...
's board of trustees in January 2016 for a two-year term.
Following controversy among Wikimedia volunteers, including a "
no confidence
A motion of no confidence, also variously called a vote of no confidence, no-confidence motion, motion of confidence, or vote of confidence, is a statement or vote about whether a person in a position of responsibility like in government or mana ...
" petition, due to his historical involvement in the
collusion over recruiting practices at
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical areas San Mateo County ...
corporations that resulted in prosecution by the
U.S. Department of Justice
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, Geshuri stepped down.
References
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1969 births
Living people
Google employees
People from Porterville, California
San Jose State University alumni
Tesla, Inc. people
University of California, Irvine alumni
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees members
People from Maryville, Missouri