Who Is Tesla's New Chair Robyn Denholm?

(Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc. named Robyn Denholm to be chairman of the board of directors. Here’s some more information about her.

• Denholm, 55, has been chief financial officer and head of strategy at Telstra Corp., Australia’s former phone monopoly, since only Oct. 1 after 18 months as chief operations officer
• Before joining Telstra in January 2017, Denholm was executive vice president, chief financial officer and chief operations officer of networking equipment and software company Juniper Networks Inc.

• She was formerly on the board of the Swiss robotics, power and automation technology company ABB Ltd.
• Denholm has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Sydney and a master’s degree in commerce from the University of New South Wales
• She’s a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants ANZ
• In a statement, Telstra Chief Executive Officer Andy Penn said: “We are sorry to see Robyn leave Telstra. We know that it has become increasingly difficult to balance her responsibilities as Telstra CFO with the increased activity of the Tesla Board.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Angus Whitley in Sydney at awhitley1@bloomberg.net

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