Apple board members aren't actively working on CEO succession, it's a problem.But if they are working on succession without the board's authorization, that's a problem too.Various...
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Arthur Levinson, former CEO of biotech company Genentech, is taking on the chairmanship of Apple's board, filling the role that Apple founder Steve Jobs vacated when he died last month.Apple also awarded a board seat to Robert Iger, president and CEO of The Walt Disney Company.Levinson had been a "co-lead director" of Apple's board since 2005 and has served on the committees for audit and finance,...
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its nonexecutive chairman. Mr. Levinson, chairman of the biotechnology company Genentech, has been a member of Apple’s board since 2005. Apple also announced that Robert A. Iger, president and chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, would join Apple’s board. They were the first changes to Apple’s leadership since the death last month of Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder and chairman.Watson...
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manufacturing at National Semiconductor Corp. Went on to become a collector of and expert on gemstones.Corp. Was an initial angel investor in Apple. Chaired Apple's board until 1996, went on to found Echelon Corp., ACM Aviation,, CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple board member. After Apple, he became a venture capitalist.Dozens...
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Cook, Apple's chief operating officer who has been filling in for Jobs since January when the company co-founder took his second medial leave inJobs has been named chairman of Apple's board of directors and Cook is joining Apple's board, too.Jobs, who has also previous battled pancreatic cancer, took his first medically related leave of absence, which lasted six months, at Apple two years ago when...
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Genentech chairman Arthur Levinson was named on Tuesday to replace the late Steve Jobs as chairman of Apple's board of directors and Disney chief executive Bob Iger joined the board. -- PHOTO: APSAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Genentech chairman Arthur Levinson was named on Tuesday to replace the late Steve Jobs as chairman of Apple's board of directors and Disney chief executive Bob Iger joined the board.The...
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BACK STORY: The move rewards a longtime Apple board member who chose it overwhen the technology giants began to compete with each other. A federal investigation had pressured him to choose one of the board seats.and was its CEO from 1995 to 2009. He has been co-lead director of Apple's board since 2005 and a member since...
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With Steve Jobs currently on his second medical leave, an interesting, and perhaps curiously timed, article details efforts from Apple's board of directors to explore possible CEO successors. Steve Jobs, though, thinks it's all "hogwash", the WSJ posts an interesting, and perhaps curiously timed, article detailing efforts from Apple's board of directors to explore possible successors to Jobs.would...
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Steve Jobs, has finally called it quits as the chief of one of the most successful technology companies in the world. In his resignation letter addressed to the the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community, he stated, "I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee."He will hand over the reins of Apple to...
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Apple chief Steve Jobs today (Aug 25) said he is resigning as CEO of the technology giant he co-founded and named Tim Cook as his successor.According to his letter "to the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community", posted on the Wall Street Journal website, Jobs said, "I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple...
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