Tesla executive departures since 2016

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Electric carmaker Tesla has seen a flurry of senior executive exits in recent months at a time when the company is looking to speed up production of its Model 3 sedan, a mid-market car crucial to its success and future profitability, and developing multiple new vehicles, including a Semi truck.

Here is a list of executive departures since 2016:

2018

May - Matthew Schwall, director of field performance engineering, exits to join Alphabet's self-driving unit, Waymo.

April - Georg Ell, director of Tesla's Western Europe operations, leaves to head UK-based Smoothwall.

March - Chief Accounting Officer Eric Branderiz exits after joining in October 2016.

March - Susan Repo, corporate treasurer and vice president of finance, exits to become chief financial officer at another company.

February - Jon McNeill, president of global sales and services, leaves to join ride-hailing company Lyft as chief operating officer.

January - Jason Mendez, director of manufacturing engineering, leaves after more than 12 years.

January - Will McColl, manager of equipment engineering, leaves after seven years.

2017

November - Jon Wagner, director of battery engineering, who joined in 2013 exits to launch a battery and powertrain startup in California.

September - Diarmuid O'Connell, vice president of business development, departs.

August - Kurt Kelty, director of battery technology and then one of the longest serving company executives, exits. He led negotiations with Panasonic on the company's gigafactory in Nevada.

July - SolarCity co-founder Peter Rive leaves the company, eight months after Tesla bought the biggest U.S. residential solar panel maker.

June - Chris Lattner, vice president of autopilot leaves within six months of joining.

June - SolarCity founder Lyndon Rive leaves the electric vehicle maker.

May - Arnnon Geshuri, who led HR at Tesla for more than eight years, departs.

April - Chief Financial Officer Jason Wheeler leaves to pursue public policy projects; replaced by Deepak Ahuja, who served as CFO before Wheeler.

March - Mark Lipscomb, vice president of human resources, departs to join streaming service provider Netflix.

March - Satish Jeyachandran, director of hardware engineering, leaves after seven years with the company; later joins Waymo.

March - David Nister, vice president of autopilot vision, departs to join chipmaker Nvidia.

March - Klaus Grohmann ousted after a clash with CEO Elon Musk over the strategy at Grohmann's firm, which Tesla had acquired in November. Grohmann Engineering helped companies design highly automated factories.

January - JLM Energy says Ardes Johnson, who worked as director of sales at Tesla Energy, joins as a vice president.

January - Sterling Anderson, head of Tesla's autopilot system, leaves the company.

2016

December - Mateo Jaramillo, vice president of Tesla Energy, leaves after seven years.

July - Rich Heley, vice president of product technology, departs to join Facebook.

May - Josh Ensign, vice president of manufacturing, leaves; joins startup Proterra as chief operating officer.

May - Greg Reichow, vice president of production, leaves as the company prepares to launch Model 3, and sharply ramp up production.

April - James Chen, vice president of regulatory affairs and deputy general counsel, leaves to join rival Faraday Future.

March - Ricardo Reyes, vice president of global communications, leaves.

March - Michael Zanoni, vice president of finance and worldwide controller, departs to join Amazon.

January - Chief Information Officer Jay Vijayan leaves Tesla to create his own startup.