Deepak Ahuja, who served as CFO of Tesla under Elon Musk and brings two decades of manufacturing and finance operations experience, joins Redwood Materials as chief growth officer. Redwood specializes in battery recycling and direct material recovery for EV makers and semiconductor firms.
The hire signals Redwood's ambition to scale beyond niche EV-battery recycling into critical-materials supply for chipmakers facing semiconductor-grade metal shortages. For data center ops: battery-grade lithium and rare-earth recovery could reshape capex economics in GPU cluster expansion.