Former Sequoia Capital managing partner Roelof Botha is joining SpaceX’s board of directors, less than a week after going public in the company’s largest-ever IPO.
spacex announced The appointment was made in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. It said Botha was appointed “to fill the existing vacancy on the Board” and will serve until SpaceX’s next annual shareholder meeting. He will also join the audit committee of the SpaceX board.
“Botha has extensive public company experience with a deep audit committee background, having served on the boards and audit committees of numerous public companies,” SpaceX wrote in the filing. he got down His role as leader of Sequoia at the end of last year.
Botha briefly overlapped with SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk at PayPal in 2000. According to his LinkedIn profile, Botha started at the payments company in March that year. Musk was removed as CEO of PayPal in September 2000.
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