In the Margins

Tesla adds two independents to board

July 17, 2017

By Bloomberg

Tesla Inc. moved to diversify a board that some investors have complained is too closely tied to CEO Elon Musk. James Rupert Murdoch, CEO of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., and Linda Johnson Rice, chairman of Johnson Publishing Co., joined Tesla’s board effective Thursday, according to a filing. Read the original story from Bloomberg.

 

 

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