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Tesla names Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson to board after SEC settlement
Tesla named Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson to its board on Friday, in compliance with an SEC settlement. The appointments add needed business and human resources expertise to the board — though add to questions about CEO Elon Musk's influence over the board.
Wilson-Thompson is the global head of human resources at Walgreens Boots Alliance and a former executive at Kellogg. Ellison is co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle, and recently disclosed a massive personal stake in Tesla.
[...] A Tesla spokesperson downplayed Ellison and Musk's personal relationship, saying the two had only socialized a handful of times and always in a group setting. The spokesperson said Musk and Ellison had not spoken for about a year leading up to Ellison's appointment to the board.
Also at The Verge.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday December 29 2018, @03:28AM
Well, he must also have good taste in salesmen, because he still manages to get massive deployments of his ripoff extremely hideous shit everywhere while there are much more elegant and inexpensive options out there. Oracle deployments are so hideous that they could have been only sold with bribery and intimidation rather than proper salesmanship, which fits Ellison's M.O.
If you knew a thing or two about databases and deployments, and asked one of their sales team to show you one and all of the features that make it "unique", would you feel like, "Yes, I want this?" I thought not.
And ponder this question: Have you ever seen Larry Ellison and John McAfee in the same room at the same time? McAfee is just an alias Ellison uses whenever he wants to go to Nicaragua to use Ayahuasca and hunt humans in the jungle as if he were in a real-life Metal Gear Solid: 3.