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Roelof Botha, former managing partner of Sequoia Captial, has joined SpaceX’s board of directors, less than a week after the company went public in its largest initial public offering ever.
SpaceX Announce The appointment was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. It said Botha had been appointed “to fill the current vacancy on the board of directors” and would serve until SpaceX’s next annual shareholder meeting. He will also join the Audit Committee of the SpaceX Board of Directors. Botha did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“Botta has extensive public company experience along with a deep audit committee background, having served on boards and audit committees at numerous public companies,” SpaceX wrote in the filing. Step down His role as Sequoia’s leader late last year.
Botha briefly overlapped with SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk at PayPal in 2000. Botha started at the payments company in March of that year, according to his LinkedIn profile. Musk was fired as CEO of PayPal in September 2000.
With the addition of Botha, SpaceX’s board of directors reaches nine members. He joins Musk’s confidants Ira Ehrenpreis, Antonio Gracias, Steve Jurvetson, Luke Nosek, SpaceX Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell, as well as Google CEO Donald Harrison and VC Randy Glein. Musk is the Chairman of the Board of Directors.
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