DoorDash, Inc. approved an increase in the size of the Board to eleven members and elected Milan Kovac as a member of the Board. Milan Kovac will serve as a Class III director with a term expiring at the Company?s 2026 annual meeting of stockholders. In addition, Milan Kovac was appointed as a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board.
Milan Kovac, age 41, most recently served at Tesla, Inc. as Vice President, Optimus (Tesla Bot) from September 2024 to June 2025. Prior to that, Milan Kovac served as Director, Optimus & Autopilot Engineering from January 2022 to September 2024, where he led engineering for Tesla?s Optimus humanoid robotics program and the foundational software and infrastructure shared across Tesla?s robotics and Autopilot initiatives. Earlier at Tesla, Milan Kovac held a series of engineering leadership roles within the Autopilot Software organization from April 2016 to January 2022.
Earlier in his career, Milan Kovac held software engineering and project leadership roles focused on embedded platforms and computer vision technologies, including at SKULLY, Methodics, and SoftKinetic (acquired by Sony) and as a consulting software engineer supporting Sony and EVS Broadcast Equipment. Milan Kovac has served on the board of directors of Boston Dynamics, Inc., an engineering and robotics design company and subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group, since January 2026. Milan Kovac holds a B.Sc.
in Electrical Engineering from Haute École Libre de Bruxelles.
