About JB Straubel
JB Straubel is the founder and CEO of Redwood Materials and joined Crusoe's board in September 2026. He co-founded Tesla, was its CTO from 2005 to 2019, and sits on the boards of Tesla and QuantumScape.
Experience
This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name JB Straubel in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.
RM
Redwood Materials Current
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Crusoe Inc.
Director
2026 · Denver, CO
Crusoe secures power, builds and runs AI data centers, and rents GPU cloud computing to AI labs and large companies.
TE
Tesla
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (2005 – 2019)
Board member
2005 – 2019
QU
QuantumScape
Board member
Education
- B.S., Energy Systems Engineering, Stanford University
- M.S., Engineering, Stanford University
Key Colleagues at Startups
The people JB Straubel works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.
Crusoe Inc. · Form D, Sep 17, 2026
CL
Chase Lochmiller
Executive officer and director
MG
Michael Gordon
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
VP
Vivek Pattipati
Director
TS
Thomas Seifert
Director
BS
Bill Stein
Director
ES
Enrique Salem
Director
NK
Nael Kassar
Director
CC
Cully Cavness
Co-founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer, director