Martin Eberhard

Martin Forest Eberhard
Eberhard in 2006
Born1960 (age 63–64)
California, United States
Alma materUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (BS, MS)
Known for

Martin Eberhard (born 1960)[1] is an American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Tesla, Inc. (then Tesla Motors) with Marc Tarpenning in 2003, where Eberhard was its original CEO serving until late 2007.[2][3][4][5] In 2015, he was inducted into the University of Illinois Engineering Hall of Fame.

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