Elon Reeve Musk FRS (born June 28, 1971) is an engineer, industrial designer, technology entrepreneur, scientist, and philanthropist. He is a citizen of South Africa, the United States (where he has lived most of his life and currently resides), and Canada. He is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer/designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc. founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People and was ranked joint-first on the Forbes list of the Most Innovative Leaders of 2019. As of May 2020, he has a net worth of $39.4 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 23rd-richest person in the world. He is the longest-tenured CEO of any automotive manufacturer globally.
