Apple today announced that Dr. Ronald D. Sugar, former Chairman of the Board and CEO of Northrop Grumman Corporation, was appointed to Apple’s Board of Directors. Dr. Sugar will serve as the Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee.
“Ron is an engineer at heart, who then became a very successful business leader. We are very excited to welcome him to Apple’s Board,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “In addition to having been the CEO of a high-tech Fortune 100 company, Ron has a Ph.D. in engineering and has been involved in the development of some very sophisticated technology.”
“I have always had enormous admiration for the people of Apple,” said Sugar in the press release. “It is a special privilege to serve on the board of such an amazing company.”
Dr. Sugar served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Northrop Grumman Corporation from 2003 until his retirement in 2010. Previous to Northrop, he held executive positions at Litton Industries and TRW Inc., where he served as chief financial officer.
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of both the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Royal Aeronautical Society. He is a director of Chevron Corporation, Amgen Inc. and Air Lease Corporation, and serves as a senior advisor to the private investment firm Ares Management LLC.
He is a trustee of the University of Southern California, where he also holds the Judge Widney Chair as Professor of Management and Technology. He is a member of the boards of UCLA Anderson School of Management, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and several other philanthropic organizations focused on children and education.
He graduated summa cum laude in engineering in 1968 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also received master’s and doctorate degrees in the same field. He subsequently completed executive programs at Stanford, Wharton and Harvard.
Source: Apple Inc.
Damn…summa cum laude. That’s awesome.
And he doesn’t believe in pushing it right to the “creepy line”.
http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt-googles-policy-is-to-get-right-up-to-the-creepy-line-and-not-cross-it-2010-10
Another Sugar-water salesman??
No, just an arms dealer. His products have most likely been the end of many a man
No he’s an engineer, the complete opposite of a salesman.
that’s disappointing. apple, really? was it really necessary to have an arms dealer at your board? someone responsible for weapons that probably killed thousands of people.
Great, now Apple is advocating the killing of millions of innocent people worldwide.
Ok you guys
Let’s take it to the absolute extreme
I think that apple is now in the arms business
They will make computerized weaponry and sell to the highest bidder
Now
Everything else will sound just as stupid
What
Are y’all all from California?
@ralph from berlin – Or maybe he worked for the company responsible for providing the tools the US military needed to keep your smarmy butt safe. It’s really a point of view kind of thing.
Of course they did employ Scooter Libby and Paul Wolfowitz, so they’re probably not all good.
Like man will not kill man? Why not eliminate the military and any law enforcement ( civilian military) and see if we need any help in thousands of deaths.
He may have cause a thousand deaths- but saved millions.
Just maybe the ones complaining are here because of him. Without these guys, you could say they may never have existed. Think…. Peace is not achieved without a stick somewhere.
Back to the Mac……
The big question is why. What is Apple lacking
or need that his appointment will help?
I hope that they can now let Al Gore go. What is his training and what did he bring to the table? Yes, he personally made the Internet. He also knows a lot about the Florida voting system. He hopes to be green some day. (Watch out Kermit) But, WHY IS AL ON THE BOARD? Did he help us with the government or education?
Please continue to find really qualified people for Apple’s board.
Finally, someone on the board to fix My plane.
Finally a weapon of mass destruction to nuke that pesky Android platform & Eric T Mole to Taliban heaven.
This guy as a huge amount of experience in various fields.
Yes one of them was with a weapon company…so what?
He’s also in Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra organisation. No one has any stupid comment about working in music?
How about several other philanthropic organizations focused on children and education… So that makes him a pedophile or something?
Come on. He’s an over-achiever with a great carreer.
Some of you are just ignorants…
Interesting, Viktor Bout sold weapons too and is probably looking at a life sentence
Thank god it wasn’t Alan Sugar. I suspect Nobel killed considerably more people than this guy and look what his legacy is. Lets not get all hypocritical.
SWWEEEET! Actually this sugar would be better for Apple.
Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar of Clapton (born 24 March 1947) is a British entrepreneur, media personality and political advisor. From humble origins in the East End of London, Sugar now has an estimated fortune of £730m (US$1.16 billion),
Welcome aboard Ronnie
Kudos to MDN for spelling “Northrop” right throughout. So many big news outlets have it as “Northrup” in their headlines even!
When all is said and done, despite knee-jerk disparagement of Al Gore, Sugar will likely kill more people through his Chevron work than by dealing weapons. Weapons systems are expensive, enrich a few, and kill loudly and visibly in a way that minimizes their use. Carbon pollution is cheap, silent, enriches many more, and takes its victims years and decades into the future in a way that makes it easy for people who don’t understand it to dismiss it- and people who profit from it to defend it.
I do believe war will always be with us. But future generations- indeed, probably even today’s teenagers- will soon view carbon burning as an outrage worse than slavery.
Can you say hello military contracts and hello big gains in stocks!!!!
Have you seen Al Gore’s newest house? I guess the carbon use to build his first one just was not enough. Try his power bill- probably provided by that dirty coal that he so complains about. Or maybe when he leaves his auto running when he is not in it- for more than an hour! How about them carbon numbers.
I guess when you serve that poisoned Kool aid to the followers, you do not have to drink it.
Al Gore, an Inconvenient Truth on the Murdock method of making billions.
Sweet!!
He looks like Steve Ballmer. WOW!!
http://www.9to5mac.com/36137/apple-gets-new-board-member-ron-sugar-from-northrop-gruman