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Musk’s pay has long been a source of controversy at Tesla. He does not receive a salary or bonus but is instead rewarded through tailor-made pay schemes.

Elon Musk might leave Tesla if $US1 trillion pay deal rejected, warns Australian powerbroker

Tesla chair Robyn Denholm has sent an open letter to the company’s shareholders, urging them to give Elon Musk’s controversial pay deal the green light.

  • James Warrington

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Tech billionaire Scott Farquhar is married to Kim Jackson, a former Hastings infrastructure dealmaker who has plied some of the family’s wealth into Australian airports.

Australia’s richest families plot country’s tech reboot at private summit

They control billions of dollars in wealth. Now some of the nation’s most powerful families have met in a bid to reshape the economy and debate its future.

  • David Swan
Elon Musk; could be become the 1 trillion dollar man?

Musk’s $1.5 trillion pay proposal. Is he worth it?

This remuneration package, devised by Australian Robyn Denholm, Tesla chair, sits miles outside the bell curve.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Elon’s MUSK-have new political party

Completely untethered: Tesla’s board has dropped Musk’s leash, and he is running amok

Placing restraints on a rogue chief executive is way more difficult if it’s Tesla’s.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Musk and Trump: A feud for the ages

Elon Musk, you’re in a hole. Stop digging!

Doubling down in his attack on Donald Trump is about as far out as one could go on the risk scale. But the Tesla boss and the US president both lack a self-regulation switch.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Robyn Denholm is tasked with keeping Elon Musk in line at Tesla.

Operation Elon: The Aussie who made $820m selling her Tesla shares

While Elon Musk trashed Tesla’s brand with extremist views and a controversial role alongside Donald Trump, his board was selling shares by the cybertruck-load.

  • Colin Kruger
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Robyn Denholm chairs the Tech Council of Australia and heads the government’s Strategic Examination of Research and Development.

Tesla’s Australian chair made $306 million as profits fell

In March, after a steep decline in Tesla’s share price, Elon Musk told employees: “Hang on to your stock.” The chair of Tesla’s board, Robyn Denholm, has not heeded his advice.

  • Aaron Krolik, Rebecca F. Elliott and Jack Ewing
Anthony Pratt at the 2024 Met Gala in New York.

Colonel Anthony Pratt? How the cardboard box king earned his stripes

On Monday, Anthony Pratt announced he’d become a permanent US resident. But it was another title that caught CBD’s eye.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Sherryn Groch
The Southside Flyers won this year’s WNBL championship.

‘Girls deserve better’: Billionaire businessman, Tesla chair take over WNBL

Billionaire Larry Kestelman and Tesla Motors chair Robyn Denholm will overhaul the Women’s National Basketball League after striking a deal with Basketball Australia.

  • Jon Pierik
Tesla’s board is doubling down on its pay package for Elon Musk.

Tesla doubles down on Musk’s $87b pay package, dismissing court ruling

The electric carmaker will ask shareholders to vote again on massive compensation package for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk that was nixed by a Delaware court early this year.

  • Dana Hull and Anders Melin