Chipotle president Jack Hartung joins Tesla’s board ahead of Tesla Diner launch

Veteran Chipotle enforcement Jack Hartung was appointed a subordinate of Tesla’s committee of directors Thursday, according to a Tesla filing with the SEC. Hartung’s summation to the committee comes arsenic Tesla softly works to decorativeness its 1950s-style diner and charging station successful Los Angeles. 

Hartung brings implicit 2 decades of acquisition arsenic a Chipotle CFO, president, and main strategy serviceman to Tesla’s board. He has overseen each concern and accounting astatine Chipotle, arsenic good arsenic proviso chain, strategy, and information and plus extortion arsenic the institution has grown to implicit 3,700 restaurants contiguous crossed the U.S. and globally. 

Prior to Chipotle, Hartung spent astir 20 years astatine McDonald’s, wherever helium served arsenic VP and CFO of the edifice chain’s spouse brands group. 

While Hartung’s concern and fiscal acumen are apt transferable crossed industries, his debut connected Tesla’s committee comes arsenic the institution gears up to motorboat the above-mentioned retro-futuristic diner and charging presumption successful LA. Last August, Tesla advertised a relation for a Tesla Diner Experience Specialist to enactment with the charging squad to physique retired large lawsuit work astatine the up-and-coming diner. 

TechCrunch has reached retired to Tesla and Hartung to larn if the Chipotle enforcement volition connection strategical penetration and a web of contacts successful the nutrient and beverage industry. 

Tesla’s regulatory filing announcing Hartung’s assignment besides discloses a related-party transaction; his son-in-law has worked arsenic a Tesla work technician since December 2016, and past twelvemonth took location a $124,000 salary. Tesla says this wage is successful enactment with the company’s modular compensation practices. 

Hartung volition statesman his duties connected the board, including connected the audit committee, effectual June 1. He has waived his quality to cod currency compensation, arsenic good arsenic his equity compensation, arsenic the different committee members person done.