Apple today announced that Donald J. Rosenberg, senior vice president and general counsel of IBM, will join the company as its senior vice president and general counsel, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
“We’re thrilled to welcome such a seasoned professional to our executive team,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “Don has a broad range of experience that includes litigation, securities, intellectual property and antitrust, and he will be responsible for overseeing all legal matters and government affairs for Apple.”
In his over 30 years at IBM, Rosenberg has held numerous positions including senior vice president and general counsel of the IBM Corporation; vice president and assistant general counsel for litigation; and counsel to IBM’s mainframe division, where he played a key role in formulating its policies with regard to intellectual property protection. His focus on securities, intellectual property and competition issues has involved extensive interaction with the SEC, the US Department of Justice and the European Economic Commission.
Rosenberg received a B.S. in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law where he was an editor of the Law Review.
Is Apple expecting to start some waves soon or brace for them?
Wow, at first I thout it said Donald Rumsfeld, either way, they will have some big guns. One would have been waayy funnier….
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Apple is playing in the major leagues now. They needed a new general counsel, and were fortunate to get someone like Rosenberg with so much industry experience.
There’s not a whole lot to be read into this.
Rumsfeld got the doorman’s job!
How old is this guy? Still got enough neurons functioning to have interviewed successfully with Steve, we presume, so probably OK? I wonder what kind of a rep he had at IBM.
DavidO:
Rosenberg is most likely smarter, richer, and more respected than you, so don’t such an asswipe.
DavidO–
His rep at IBM. Certainly it was atrocious. That’s why Apple hired him.
Are you snorting your pop tarts?
And Steve added muttering to himself, “And we need him so we don´t all end up in jail for that stock options thing…”
“I am Basch von Rosenburg of Dalmasca!”
“Don’t listen to Ondore’s lies!”
“Basch lives!”
And Steve added muttering to himself, “And we need him so we don´t all end up in jail for that stock options thing…”
That issue has been resolved. Go Apple!
HuskerMac,
not quite. Wait until December.
The only time I recall Apple wasn’t “thrilled” about something is when Steve Jobs apologized to the shareholders for the accounting irregularities. Yeah, yeah, I know being thrilled is in Apple’s DNA. I’m thrilled for them.
Peace.
Vaan,
Don’t you know that you can’t play games on a Mac! Macs are for serious work. So why are you posting here?
wait, i’m confused. does this mean that this year we’re at war with Oceania and allied with Eurasia, or the other way around?
More background information:
Apple names new head lawyer:
Apple’s general counsel post has been vacant since May, when Nancy Heinen abruptly stepped down.
Opps, error in above link. Correct link below:
Apple names new head lawyer
Nancy Heinen abruptly stepped down because of the stock options fiasco….first to fall on the sword.
Who is next?
Still waiting for Apple to restate all its earnings back to 2002 or is it 1996????
They can restate their financials all they want, but at the end of the day, they’ll still have the same amount of money in the bank, will still be selling as many Macs and iPods as they are, and still have as many tangible assets as they do.