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Tesla’s global sales director leaves for Airbnb, marking latest executive departure

A Tesla older sales executive, Dan Kim, has left the company, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Kim, who joined Tesla in January, formerly larboard for online travel site Airbnb, Bloomberg News first reported Tuesday. The job change was also reflected on a LinkedIn paginate that appears to belong to Kim, who was listed as the former head of global sales, marketing and delivery operations at Tesla.

Kim departed decisive month and his duties at the electric automaker are being handled by other people on his team, according to the person. Kim was a senior impresario in global sales and marketing under Robin Ren, the vice president of worldwide sales at Tesla.

Tesla declined to note. Airbnb didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Prior to joining Tesla, Kim held executive roles in hawking at Solera, a company that makes vehicle analytics, according to his Wikipedia and LinkedIn pages. Before that Kim started a chain of frozen yogurt stores called Red Mango.

Tesla has experienced intense turnover at several levels in its corrupts. In September, short seller Jim Chanos compiled a list that showed the company had lost more than 40 principals in 2018. In late November, CNBC reported that Tesla’s global head of security left after 11 months on the job and the corporation’s head of digital product confirmed in December he has left the company.

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