Facebook Hires Tesla’s Rich Heley for Building 8 Innovation Lab
- Social network’s new group is focused on hardware advances
- Heley reported directly to Musk as Tesla’s VP of product
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Facebook Inc. nabbed a top Tesla Motors Inc. executive to work at its new Building 8 research lab, another major hire for the group tasked with fast-paced development of hardware products.
Rich Heley, who was most recently vice president of product technology at Tesla, will report to Regina Dugan, a former Google executive whom Facebook hired in April to lead Building 8. A Facebook representative confirmed Heley’s hire, declining to give additional details.