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Tesla chair Robyn Denholm denies the car manufacturer is hunting for a new CEO – just after selling $50m in stock

- May 1, 2025 4 MIN READ

Robyn Denholm was on stage Blackbird’s Sunrise when the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published news that Tesla, the company she’s chaired since 2018, was on the hunt for a new CEO. The basketball-loving-and-owning Australian, a Blackbird director, was talking to Sydney Kings and Boomers coach Brian Goorjian about the lessons from sport for leadership and… Read more »

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Lobby group The Tech Council of Australia rearranges its chairs, with Atlassian’s Scott Farquhar replacing Robyn Denholm

- March 13, 2025 3 MIN READ

Robyn Denholm, chair of beleaguered car manufacturer Tesla, is stepping down as inaugural chair of industry lobby group The Tech Council of Australia (TCA), after 3.5 years in the role. She will be replaced by Atlassian cofounder Scott Farquhar, who stepped away from his day job as co-CEO last year, and has also been on… Read more »

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Tesla boss Robyn Denholm and LaunchVic’s Kate Cornick will review Australia’s R&D

- December 2, 2024 3 MIN READ

The federal government has launched a review into Australia’s research and development performance but may not live to see the result. The year-long review strategic review will be led by Robyn Denholm, chair of Telsa and the Tech Council of Australia, founder of Wollemi Capital, and operating partner at VC fund Blackbird. The review was announced… Read more »

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She shoots, she scores! Robyn and Victoria Denholm now own a whole basketball league

- November 21, 2024 2 MIN READ

Tesla chair and Blackbird partner Robyn Denholm, has one-upped Atlassian’s Mike Cannon-Brookes, part owner of US NBA team the Utah Jazz, by buying an entire basketball league, the WNBL. The deal between the Wollemi Capital Group Syndicate (WCGS) and Larry Kestelman’s National Basketball League (NBL) consortium to acquire a majority stake in the Women’s National… Read more »

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Tesla chair Robyn Denholm is buying a slice of the Sydney Kings and Flames basketball teams

- March 16, 2022 2 MIN READ

Tesla chair and Blackbird partner Robyn Denholm is the latest tech titan bitten by the sports bug, buying into Australian basketball team The Sydney Kings. Denholm’s 30% share in the Kings, via her family investment office, Wollemi Capital Group (WGC), also includes Women’s NBL club Sydney Flames. Majority owner and Kings chairman Paul Smith is… Read more »

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Tesla’s global chair, Robyn Denholm, worries Australia’s grown complacent and afraid of risk

- December 5, 2019 3 MIN READ

  Robyn Denholm, the Australian businesswoman who’s now global chair of Elon Musk’s tech company Tesla, wants everyone in her homeland to embrace risk and is worried the nearly three decades of uninterrupted economic growth has made people complacent. Denholm (pictured above), who grew up in the western Sydney suburb of Milperra and rose to… Read more »