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Google executive Donald Harrison resigns from SpaceX board

Reuters
Google executive Donald Harrison resigns from SpaceX board

Nov 6 (Reuters) - SpaceX ‌disclosed on Friday that Google executive Donald ​Harrison ‌has resigned from the rockets-to-AI ‌company's board after more than a decade.

Here are some ‌details:

• Harrison notified SpaceX of his resignation on November 4, and it took effect ⁠immediately

• The Elon Musk-led ‌company said Harrison's decision ⁠to resign was not due ​to any disagreement with the company on matters ​relating to its operations, ​policies ‌or practices

• Harrison, a longtime ​executive at Google, is ⁠currently president of ‌Global Partnerships and ​Corporate Development. ​Alphabet is the largest single institutional holder of SpaceX, according to LSEG data

• Google ‌on Friday reported a small increase in its position ‌in ​SpaceX to about 555 million shares from 551.2 million earlier

(Reporting by Prathik Jayaprakash in Bengaluru; ‌Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)