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Chandler Kowtko

Founder of TGB Ventures

Los Angeles, California

Overview 

Chandler Kowtko is currently working in Business Operations at SpaceX and has previously held roles at Tesla. With a background in finance and operations management, he has made significant contributions in areas such as cash flow management, capital allocation, and budget oversight. Kowtko's career highlights include his roles at high-profile companies like SpaceX and Tesla, showcasing his expertise in finance and operations across various business functions.

Work Experience 

  • 📡

    2022 - Current

    Funding Mars colonization and proliferating humanity’s freedom to communicate through profit improvement, cost planning, geopolitical risk reduction, data analytics, and executive decision support for Starlink engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and sales

  • Finance

    2021 - 2022

    FP&A owner of Starlink dishes

SpaceX is an aviation and aerospace company that focuses on reducing the costs associated with space travel by using reusable rockets.

Raised $9,770,343,846.00 from Roman Smolevskiy.

  • Cofounder

    2021

    Early stage investments. Join our community here: https://form.typeform.com/to/FmmiwqWB

  • Limited Partner

    2021

  • Mentor

    2020

SkyDeck Berkeley is a research university accelerator that serves as an apex startup launchpad for affiliated entrepreneurs.

  • Cofounder

    2020

    Private equity firm with initial focus in real estate investment in regions positively impacted by tech industry growth

  • Engineering Business Operations

    2020 - 2021

    FP&A and business operations owner of electrical distribution (high and low voltage wire harnesses) across all vehicles

  • Supply Chain Business Operations (Program Evolution)

    2020 - 2020

    FP&A and business operations owner of $400M of yearly cost, 1K+ headcount, and $1.5B of assets across vehicle program evolution’s global production and service supply chain effects in demand planning, network design, industrial engineering, procurement, packaging engineering, NPI, material planning, channel planning, service manufacturing, part inventory, freight, warehousing, excess and obsolescence, and vendor liabilities

  • Supply Chain Business Operations (Parts)

    2019 - 2020

    Supported $39M quarterly profit improvement through FP&A and business operations ownership of global service supply chain, global part inventory, material planning, excess and obsolescence, and vendor liabilities

  • Supply Chain Business Operations (Service)

    2019 - 2019

    Supported $7M quarterly profit improvement through FP&A and business operations ownership of global service supply chain, excess and obsolescence, and vendor liabilities

  • Manufacturing Business Operations (Warehousing)

    2019 - 2019

    Supported $23M+ quarterly profit improvement through FP&A and business operations ownership of global production and service warehousing

  • FP&A Business Intelligence

    2018 - 2019

    Financial model automation and business intelligence with corporate, energy, manufacturing, sales, marketing, and service FP&A teams

  • Corporate FP&A

    2018 - 2019

    Global intercompany, transfer pricing, and fixed asset depreciation modeling with corporate FP&A team

  • Service Business Operations

    2018 - 2018

    Service freight, warehouse, and inventory data analytics targeting $36M yearly profit improvement

  • Accounting Business Intelligence

    2017 - 2018

    Global travel expense data automation for executive reporting

Tesla Motors is an electric vehicle and clean energy company that provides electric cars, solar, and renewable energy solutions.

Raised $19,374,213,101.00 from European Union, PennDOT, Australian Renewable Energy Agency and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

  • Cofounder - Product and Finance

    2018 - 2018

    Created minimum viable product and business plan for trust-less creation, storage, validation, and execution of wills with an Ethereum blockchain

  • Sales

    2017 - 2017

    SaaS sales strategy and execution leading to closed deal with $1.6B fintech company

  • Finance

    2015 - 2017

    Led FP&A and accounting at healthcare tech firm from first funding round through first sales revenue and acquisition while driving sales efforts, hiring, operations and data management, fundraising, weekly executive reporting, and accounting

Stroll is a software application that lets patients choose the best care based on quality, price, and coverage.

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