Steve Jobs resigns as CEO, named chairman. STEVE JOBS RESIGNS AS CEO OF APPLE. Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO. Steve Jobs Resigns As CEO Of Apple. Title says it all.
More to come. For now, the letter from Steve Jobs himself: To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Apple’s COO Tim Cook Replaces Steve Jobs As CEO. Apple’s Steve Jobs has resigned from his position as CEO and Apple has just announced that COO Tim Cook has taken over as CEO.
As COO, Cook was responsible for all of the company’s worldwide sales and operations, including end-to-end management of Apple’s supply chain, sales activities, and service and support in all markets and countries. He also headed Apple’s Macintosh division and plays a key role in the continued development of strategic reseller and supplier relationships, ensuring flexibility in response to an increasingly demanding marketplace.
Before joining Apple, Cook was vice president of Corporate Materials for Compaq and was responsible for procuring and managing all of Compaq’s product inventory. Previous to his work at Compaq, Cook was the chief operating officer of the Reseller Division at Intelligent Electronics. Twitter Reacts To Steve Jobs Stepping Down (TWEETS) Meet Tim Cook: Apple’s New CEO - Deal Journal. Getty Images Apple executive Tim Cook: The next Steve Jobs?
Steve Jobs, the heart and soul of Apple Inc., just resigned as CEO. Apple’s board said it named Tim Cook to replace Jobs as CEO. Cook has been filling in for Jobs since he took a medical leave earlier this year. (Read Steve Jobs’s resignation letter HERE.) Jobs brought Tim Cook on board in 1998 to oversee the manufacturing of Apple’s computers. The Alabama native is an industrial engineer by training, and also earned a master’s degree in business administration from Duke University. Cook also filled in for Jobs for two months in 2004, when Jobs recuperated from surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his pancreas.
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In the meantime, Apple will be helmed by Cook, a respected manager little known outside Silicon Valley. "I know he and the rest of the executive management team will do a great job," Jobs wrote in an e-mail distributed inside the company Wednesday. The early consensus, among some analysts and Mac fans, is that Cook is an able administrator, though not necessarily one with the sort of salesmanship skills or industry-bending vision as his boss. Travis Good, with the local computer user group Washington Apple Pi, said that Cook is known as being "excellent" as an executive in charge of "delivering product, keeping schedules and maintaining margins.
" Apple, however, is famous for innovative products and exceptional design and those qualities are "not something Cook stands for. " Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple. Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple Tim Cook Named CEO and Jobs Elected Chairman of the Board CUPERTINO, Calif.
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apple's Board of Directors today announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive Officer, and the Board has named Tim Cook, previously Apple's Chief Operating Officer, as the company's new CEO. Jobs has been elected Chairman of the Board and Cook will join the Board, effective immediately. "Steve has made countless contributions to Apple's success, and he has attracted and inspired Apple's immensely creative employees and world class executive team. "The Board has complete confidence that Tim is the right person to be our next CEO," added Levinson. Jobs submitted his resignation to the Board today and strongly recommended that the Board implement its succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO.
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