Welcoming Deepak Ahuja as Redwood's Chief Financial Officer

Redwood Materials is at an exciting and defining moment. The infrastructure challenges we were founded to solve - domestic energy storage and critical mineral supply - have moved from long-term thesis to immediate national priority. Scaling both urgently requires financial leadership built for complexity, long capital cycles, and close partnerships across the electrification ecosystem.

Today, we're excited to share that Deepak Ahuja is joining Redwood Materials as our Chief Financial Officer.

Deepak brings decades of financial leadership, most notably serving as Tesla's CFO across two tenures, where he helped take the company from early-stage startup through its 2010 IPO and on to the global company it is today. After Tesla, he served as CFO of Verily Life Sciences and then as Chief Business and Financial Officer at Zipline, the drone delivery and logistics company. He has been in leadership roles at several companies scaling something genuinely hard.

His familiarity with Redwood's leadership team and his longstanding belief in the mission makes him the right person to help us build what comes next.

We sat down with Deepak to hear what brought him to Redwood, how he thinks about the energy storage opportunity, and where he plans to focus first.