Tesla top manager nicknamed for his ability to read Musk's mood

Twitter Inc. employees have nicknamed Tesla's top executive Omead Afshar within the social network because of his ability to foresee the mood of the company's CEO, Elon Musk.

Afshar is a longtime Tesla executive who once led the company’s Tesla Gigafactory in Austin, Texas. He joined Twitter’s office late last year but was quick to earn the nickname “the Elon whisperer” among staffers, according to The Financial Times.

At Twitter, Afshar is reportedly helping solve “the biggest, stickiest issues at the company”, including cutting infrastructure costs.

The executive has recently been involved in tense negotiations over large cloud spending contracts with Amazon and Google. Musk said at the investor conference that cloud spending was now down 40 per cent.