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Tesla adds Larry Ellison, Kathleen Wilson-Thompson executive to board

The new additions to the board put a bookend on a months-long distraction that at one point looked like it may cost Musk his future with the company

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Tesla added Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson to its board on Friday, fulfilling the terms of the settlement reached with Us securities regulators over its CEO’s problematic posts about taking the company private.
 
Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle Corp, and Wilson-Thompson, the global chief human resources officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc, join a board the Securities and Exchange Commission ordered to step up its governance and oversight measures after Elon Musk claimed in August to have had the funding and investor support for a buyout. The chief executive officer relinquished the role of chairman in November, and both

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