Charlie Haley

Managed business operations and financial planning for all vehicle electronics, software, silicon, AI, and Autopilot activities at Tesla. Worked with cross-functional teams on new product/feature development, investment proposals, headcount planning, commercial negotiations, R&D project management, etc. Managed three direct-reports also focused on business operations / financial management. Led the cross-vehicle cost reduction program for Model 3, coordinating initiatives across Engineering / Supply Chain and regularly updating the executive team on progress towards targets. Created a new business model / product offering for data connectivity. Managed the launch program for new internally-developed Autopilot hardware (still ongoing).

Provided financial guidance and operational support to the Engineering organization, specifically focusing on Autopilot / Infotainment / Low Voltage Electronics content. Responsibilities include: • Supporting design decisions and commercial negotiations for new programs (primarily Model 3) while tracking expected costs / developmental spend • Identifying and monitoring material cost reduction opportunities for existing vehicle programs • Supporting ad hoc business decisions on new investments, pricing, design trade-offs, sourcing / manufacturing strategy, etc. • Maintaining corporate forecasts on gross margin and departmental budgetary spend

Sat in the General Management practice at Deloitte, where I rotated through high-impact consulting projects for large corporations. Primarily, my projects were for consumer & industrial products clients, but across a variety of service lines. Sample project experiences include: • Worked with a global corporate strategy team to set the global growth strategy for a $10.5B firm looking to grow 2x in the next five years, and identify inorganic growth priorities and targets

Sat in the General Management practice at Deloitte, where I rotated through high-impact consulting projects for large corporations. Primarily, my projects were for consumer & industrial products clients, but across a variety of service lines. Sample project experiences include: • Worked on the project management team for a major divestiture project at a consumer products company, where I presented regular divestiture updates to executive leadership, worked directly with the COO on board-level updates, developed execution tracking tools, led workshops, and directly advised two chief financial controllers and an analyst team on post-spin management processes for transaction-service agreements. I additionally managed the cutover process for 80+ clients in the Commercial Americas group. • Constructed capability work time-allocation surveys for resource cost allocation at a quick-service restaurant company, building models using Excel and Tableau to analyze and visualize data results and designing organizational structure templates used to brainstorm new functional staffing models • Conducted over 60 client interviews at a mining company in areas such as maintenance, production planning, health & safety, and public affairs, capturing and structuring insights from both the interviews and data requests to develop a list of best-process opportunities for the company

• Went on-site to 11 community banks across America to gather seed financial data on over 3000 loans, working with bank managers to utilize core technology systems • Worked on a four-person project team to create the quantitative model behind a new product, using Excel, SQL, and Matlab, that assigns credit scores to businesses based on financial history

• Assisted an energy and transportation project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation • Researched the bus-rapid-transit industry and assembled basic data on hundreds of companies that compose a five-step value chain

• Led 15+ meetings with mining executives pitching their case for capital investment • Advised the company on 30+ small-cap investment opportunities for high-wealth stock portfolios, primarily in the technology and mining sectors, that impacted their buying strategy • Conducted primary research on pricing for a new private equity solar panel project in New Jersey

• Initiated and maintained lab experiments in the Advanced Ceramics and Glasses Group • Installed and fixed lab equipment