Deepak Ahuja
Deepak Prabhu Ahuja is a financial executive working in the automotive manufacturing industry. He is most well known for being the former CFO of Tesla.
Ahuja holds a bachelor's degree in ceramic engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, BHU 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.
Ahuja spent six years working for Kennametal near Pittsburgh, and obtained a Master of Business Administration qualification from Carnegie Mellon University.
In 1993 Ahuja moved to Woodhaven, Michigan to accept a job with the Ford Motor Company. He became Chief Financial Officer 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.
