“Who will be the next CEO of Apple Computer? Douglas McIntyre at bloggingstocks.com asks and gives some possible answers to the question of who will eventually replace Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple Computer,” Charles Jade reports for Ars Technica.
The list in no particular order:
• Philip Schiller, 45, Apple Computer
• Timothy Cook, 45, Apple Computer
• Tony Fadell, 36, Apple Computer
• William Campbell, 65, Intuit
• Jerome York, 67, IBM
• James Allchin, 55, Microsoft
• Susan Decker, 43, Yahoo
• John Thompson, 57, Symantec
Jade reports, “The more obvious and likely choices come from within Apple, but the question really isn’t who will replace Steve Jobs. The real question is who will choose the successor, and that will likely be Steve Jobs. Some time after returning to Apple Computer in late 1996, Jobs remarked that he had ‘given Apple to a bozo once,’ and that it wouldn’t happen again. What this means is that the future of the company, like the present, is dependent upon the brilliant and erratic vision of Steve Jobs. Let’s hope he’s in the iPod groove, and not Cube mode, when the next CEO is chosen.”
Full article with links to McIntyre’s original article which sets up the succession question with pretty specious threat (most on Wall Street and elsewhere don’t think such a threat exists) of Jobs’ ouster due to options “irregularities” here.
Related articles:
Apple’s options disclosures leave plenty of unanswered questions – October 09, 2006
Apple shareholders await earnings restatements; Steve Jobs still not in the clear – October 06, 2006
Former CFO Anderson helped turn Apple Computer around – October 05, 2006
Wall Street unshaken by results of Apple stock options investigation – October 05, 2006
Is Apple rotten at the core? – October 05, 2006
Analyst: Anderson, Heinen may be former Apple executives responsible for irregular options grants – October 05, 2006
Analyst: Apple restatement due to options irregularities not expected to be significant – October 04, 2006
Apple’s special committee reports findings of stock option investigation – October 04, 2006
Shareholders allege Apple execs reaped ‘millions’ in unlawful profits – August 23, 2006
How options-backdating irregularities can affect your Apple Computer stock – August 23, 2006
Apple’s options imbroglio: Mac-maker granted options at or near key events in company’s history – August 18, 2006
Apple added to Nasdaq’s list of ‘delinquent companies’ – August 18, 2006
Apple unlikely to be delisted by NASDAQ – August 16, 2006
Apple CEO Steve Jobs drawn into stock options scandal – August 15, 2006
Apple announces update regarding stock option grants – August 11, 2006
As expected, Apple delays quarterly results due to stock-options grants review – August 11, 2006
Some stock options grant decisions were made by Apple board, and potentially, CEO Steve Jobs – August 10, 2006
Disney: no material impact from Pixar options – August 09, 2006
Pixar options draw scrutiny – August 08, 2006
Apple stock options scandal? What scandal? – August 07, 2006
Class action lawsuit over stock options filed against Apple Computer, Inc. – August 04, 2006
Wall Street forgiving of Apple’s stock option irregularities; CEO Jobs unlikely to be terminated – August 04, 2006
Apple’s stock option irregularities escalate into a scandal as world awaits Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote – August 04, 2006
Apple warns of profit restatement dating back to 2002 – August 04, 2006
Apple loses 3.5% to $67.15 in premarket trading – August 04, 2006
Apple announces update regarding stock option grants – August 03, 2006
Shareholder’s options suit against Apple alleges ‘striking pattern that could not have been chance’ – July 11, 2006
Apple announces update regarding stock option grants – July 05, 2006
UBS: stock options probe unlikely to hurt Apple – June 30, 2006
Apple joins growing list of companies entangled in stock option ‘irregularities’ – June 29, 2006
Apple to investigate stock option grant ‘irregularities’ made between 1997 and 2001 – June 29, 2006
Fred D. Anderson joins Apple Board – June 08, 2004
Apple CFO Anderson to retire on June 1, 2004; will join Apple’s Board of Directors – February 05, 2004
Allchin? Let me barf.
Jim Allchin?!? really – the man couldn’t get windows done properly. what is this guy smoking? i want some of that stuff. and no mention of Ive? crap blog.
plllll.
if you’re gonna spew, spew into this \_/
Jonathon Eve.
Apple is like no other. if person from outside will be CEO, Apple company will be in very hard time because they don’t understand what real Apple philosophy has been. so CEO must be Apple insider.
It should be Phil Schiller.
…or Christmas Eve. You might mean Ive.
The day a woman takes over Apple is the day i get a PC.
Me . . me . . me!!
Has Jobs announced retirement?
Until he does so, I consider the question a waste.
THE question is when will Apple deliver me an ‘entry-level’ priced Mac. And/or other innovations.
George W. Bush – because he thinks different.
I’m surprised anyone from Symantec is even within a thousands miles of the list for the CEO spot at Apple.
I think Carly Fiorina could really turn Apple around.
Xenu!!!
Xenu!!!
I think things could improve for the next Act of Apple. It seems that the “vision thing” is going well now, but execution could be more dynamic.
To think that one person could almost miss out on the MP3 player decision and the company fortunes would be drastically different.
To think that one person doesn’t see any reason for an Apple PDA / Smartphone means that Apple misses out on the Mobile OS market.
To think that one person demands a simple product matrix and thus limits the available hardware selections for the customers.
To think that one person can place so much importance on the US market that worldwide and emerging markets are neglected.
Apple needs to start executing like a $30 billion company, and not a $30 million one.
But it is very clear, that Steve Jobs is possibly the world’s greatest visionary leader.
Eric Schmidt from Google
I think it should be the Woz. Complete with credit card steak knife. Apple Computer becomes Apple Pranksters. All Macs will have a built-in “Mac-in-a-box”.
Scott Forestall
Dark horse surely, but he conducted himself well during the WWDC keynote. And AAPL is all about keynotes.
Phil Schiller? Ugh!
Jooop: Turning Apple around would be a good thing???
This news about Jobs stepping down is an attempt to drop the stock price. For shame, MDN, for publishing this story. You know that talk like this will only upset stockholders, and especially stockholders that don’t read the news. They must think he is dying or something. What if Steve stays at Apple for another 10 years?
Floating these stories only can result in negativity in the real world towards Apple. You know. Outside of your little bubble, MDN.
Steve should remain at Apple for a long time to come. After all, it is just getting interesting for him. He is about to payback Gates and that monkey, Ballmer, for stealing Apple’s GUI.
REVENGE IS SWEET. PAYBACK IS A BITCH. GO APPLE>
This whole options thing is out of control…the option “irregularity” was, and is still, not illegal!!!
The problem was that they weren’t accounted for properly on the P/L.
The accountants go back, sort things out, restate earnings from 4 years ago and move on.
This is a witch hunt like when people were trying to get Martha Stewart. She at least WAS involved in something possibly illegal. BTW, remember she went to jail for perjury not insider trading. If she had fessed up, like Jobs et al., she would have gotten a slap on the wrist fine and everybody would have moved on.
!!!! Shakira
Al Gore.
Because he is the genius who invented the internet.
because he is not GWBush. and really thinks differently.
because he will be the first CEO to make Apple truly Green and compliant to all the enviromental requirements.
because he secretly wants to be the most powerful man in the world. and since he couldn’t do it on the political scene (because of some dumbasses in Florida), he can do it by becoming CEO of the little company that cruched the giants of Microsoft and making Aplle the most powerful company in the world.
Who cares? Steve Jobs is only 51, he’s got another 10-15 years before he retires.
ok.. what is “me” smoking and can I get some?