Tesla Inc. on Friday announced several executive hires, including a new vice president of engineering and a chief financial officer for its China business. Stuart Bowers, the engineering VP, joined from Snap Inc. and is responsible for Tesla's software and hardware engineering, Tesla said in a blog post. Neeraj Manrao, previously at Apple Inc. has joined as director of energy manufacturing. Kevin Mukai has been named director of production engineering for Tesla's Nevada battery factory. James Zhou is Tesla's new CFO for China. The hiring spree comes after a few high-profile executives left Tesla in recent weeks. Tesla shares were poised to end the week 0.1% higher, compared with a 0.2% advance for the S&P 500 index "We're excited to welcome a group of such talented people as we continue to ramp Model 3 and accelerate towards a more sustainable future. We'll be announcing more hires in the coming days, so stay tuned," the company said.