The shareholders of tesla They will vote this Thursday whether to ratify the salary package of US$56,000 of the CEO Elon Musk which was annulled by a judge Delaware in January. Musk said Shareholders were voting by wide margins to approve the pay package.
Also on the agenda is the re-election of directors, among them the younger brother of Musk, Kimbal, who usually poses with a cowboy hat, is businessman, activist and chefaccording to his biography on the website tesla.
Kimbal Musk had a near-death experience
Born a year after Elon Musk, Kimball grew up in South Africa with his brother before moving to Canada to study business in the Queen’s University. This year she turns 52 years old.
His net worth was estimated at US$700,000,000 in 2021, according to Forbes. He owns almost 2 million Tesla shares, worth more than US$350,000,000according to the company’s proxy statement and the company’s stock price on Wednesday.
Kimbal Musk was director of SpaceX since 2002when it was founded, until January 2022, according to a proxy statement from tesla. He was part of the council of Chipotle Mexican Grill between 2013 and 2019.
One of the brothers’ first business collaborations was Internet business software firm Zip2 Corp, which they co-founded in 1995. According to the New York Times, it was acquired by Compaq for $307,000,000 and merged with Yahoo Maps in 1999.
Kimball He had also invested in X.com, his brother’s online financial services company, which merged with PayPal.
Graduated by French Culinary Institute of New York, In 2004, he co-founded the Kitchen group, which has restaurants all over USA. He is also the author of “The Kitchen Cookbook: Cooking for Your Community.”
In 2010, Kimball became the executive director of Big Green, a nonprofit that creates learning gardens in schools around USA. In 2022, he launched a drone light show company, Nova Sky Stories, with 9,000 light drones.
In 2016 he co-founded an indoor farming platform, Square Roots. In 2010 he broke his neck while skiing and was hospitalized for months. He called it a “near-death experience.”according to the media.
