Ex-Tesla Attorney Joins Agriculture Robot Start-Up Iron Ox (1)

Iron Ox Inc., which makes robots for agriculture, said Tuesday it named former Tesla Inc. lawyer Myra Pasek as its first general counsel.

Pasek was Tesla’s second in-house lawyer and briefly led the company’s European, Middle Eastern, and African public relations. She left her associate general counsel job at Tesla to take general counsel roles with Impossible Foods Inc. and Outster Inc. before joining Iron Ox.

Pasek will build Iron Ox’s in-house legal team and work on issues such as contracts, privacy, government relations, and intellectual property. “My passion is really the environment and trying to mitigate climate change,” she ...