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Tesla cfo: Vaibhav of Indian origin is the Chief Financial Officer in Taneja Tesla. You will be surprised to know that in terms of earnings, he has left many big names behind. In the year 2024, Vaibhav earned $ 139 million (about Rs 1,157 crore).
After promotion in 2023, Vaibhav Taneja’s salary was $ 400,000 (Rs 3.33 crore), but his package made a long jump from stock options and equity awards. In this case, he surpassed Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, who earned $ 79.1 million (Rs 658 crore) and $ 10.73 million (Rs 89 crore) respectively.
Tesla’s growing stock value benefits
47 -year -old Vaibhav joined Tesla in 2017. He benefited from Tesla’s growing stock value. After becoming a CFO in 2023, Vaibhav got most of the compensation stock. In 2023, Tesla’s share to Vaibhav with a 4 -year -old welding period was around $ 250 (Rs 20,800). It rose to $ 342 (Rs 28,400) by 19 May 2025.
The interesting thing is that this happened when Tesla was facing problems like decline in supply of EV and decrease in profit. The payment made to Vaibhav Taneja is the highest in the payment made to a CFO so far. With this, he also broke the previous record of $ 86 million (Rs 715 crore) of Nicola’s CFO in 2020.
Who is Vaibhav Taneja?
- Vaibhav Taneja is a chartered accountant. He is a commerce graduate from Delhi University.
- Vaibhav worked at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC) in India and America till 17 years (1999 to 2016).
- In March 2016, he joined the Solrursity Corporation. Here he took responsibility from Vice President to Corporate Controller. Tesla acquired Solrursity this year, after which Taneja led the accounting team of both companies.
- In the year 2017, he started his journey with Tesla as Assistant Corporate Controller. Tesla’s corporate controller became in 2018. In 2019, he was promoted to the post of Chief Accounting Officer.
- In 2021, Vaibhav Tesla’s Indian subsidiary was appointed as the director of Tesla India Motors and Energy Private Limited.
- He was appointed Tesla’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in August 2023.
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