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Exclusive: Redwood Materials loses COO amid layoffs, restructuring |.

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Redwood Materials, Inc. decreased headcount by 135 on Apr 1st '26.

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Exclusive: Redwood Materials loses COO amid layoffs, restructuring |. 3:44 PM PDT · April 23, 2026 Redwood Materials chief operating officer Chris Lister is leaving the battery recycling company to retire, TechCrunch has learned - and he's not the only executive that recently departed. Lister, a former vice president who led operations at Tesla's Nevada Gigafactory, has been with Redwood since late 2023. He started as the company's chief supply chain officer and was quickly promoted to the COO role in 2024. The promotion put him closer in the org chart to Redwood founder and CEO JB Straubel, who was Tesla's longtime chief technology officer and currently sits on the automaker's board. Redwood Materials recently informed employees that Lister was retiring, according to an employee who was granted anonymity to speak about the announcement. The company confirmed Lister's departure to TechCrunch on Thursday. "We wish him the best in his retirement," a spokesperson said via email. News of Lister's retirement comes just a few days after TechCrunch revealed Redwood Materials recently laid off around 10% of its workforce, or roughly 135 employees. Those cuts were part of a restructuring that Straubel told employees about in an email viewed by TechCrunch earlier this week. He said the shuffle will help support the company's growing energy storage business. Redwood has recently...

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Event
Layoff

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Jobs cut
135
Takes effect
Apr 1, 2026

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Jobs cut (reported)
135
Headcount named
135

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Confidence
65%
Detected
Apr 22, 2026
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