Deepak Prabhu Ahuja is an
Indian-American financial executive working in the life sciences industry who previously worked in the automotive manufacturing industry. He is best known for being the former CFO of
Tesla.
Ahuja holds a bachelor's degree in
ceramic engineering from
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi (IIT BHU) is a Public university, public technical university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in 1919 as the Banaras Engineering college, Engineering College, it became the Institu ...
and a master's degree from
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science of
Northwestern University.
Ahuja enrolled at Northwestern University in 1985, with his first class being taught by
Morris E. Fine
Morris Eugene Fine (April 12, 1918 – September 30, 2015) was Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering in Service and Member of the Graduate Faculty at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. A member of Northwestern's faculty ...
.
Ahuja spent six years working for
Kennametal near
Pittsburgh, and obtained a
Master of Business Administration qualification from
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...
.
In 1993 Ahuja moved to
Woodhaven, Michigan to accept a job with the
Ford Motor Company.
He became Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the
AutoAlliance International joint-venture between Ford and
Mazda.
Ahuja then moved to become CFO of Ford in
Southern Africa.
He then returned to Michigan to act as controller of Ford's fuel-efficient small cars product development programme.
On 13 June 2008 Ahuja was offered the position of Chief Financial Officer at Tesla Motors, reporting to CEO and president
Ze'ev Drori.
In 2015 Ahuja retired from Tesla, and then returned as Chief Financial Officer again in February 2017 to replace Jason Wheeler.
His retirement from Tesla after 11 years was announced on the Q4 2018 Tesla earnings call on January 30th 2019.
In January 2020, Ahuja joined
Verily
Verily Life Sciences, also known as Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences), is Alphabet Inc.'s research organization devoted to the study of life sciences. The organization was formerly a division of Google X, until August 10, 2015, when Sergey ...
as its chief financial officer. In September 2022, it was announced that Ahuja would leave Verily and join
Zipline as its first chief business and financial officer from September 30.
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1963 births
Living people
Tesla, Inc. people
Banaras Hindu University alumni
Northwestern University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
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