“Apple talked with Tosi about becoming its CFO, three people familiar with the situation said yesterday,” Satariano and Keoun report. “Tosi told Blackstone Chief Executive Officer Stephen Schwarzman that he plans to stay put, two of the people said.”
“Tosi, 42, would have brought a background in corporate acquisitions,” Satariano and Keoun report. “Blackstone, the world’s largest private-equity firm, made more than 30 purchases last year, compared with four for Apple, according to Bloomberg data.”
Satariano and Keoun report, “The finance chief at an electronics maker such as Apple would also have to handle such complicated tasks as managing a manufacturing supply chain. That mastery would only come from experience at another technology hardware company, said Brian Marshall, an analyst at Gleacher & Co. in San Francisco. Apple’s approach to Tosi is therefore a ‘head scratcher,’ Marshall said.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Since we do like to Think Different™, let’s take a peek outside the box: Who says you can’t have multiple people focused on specific things? Perhaps Apple doesn’t need a new CFO, but wants to add a new M&A chief? Nobody who’s actually worth the offer would give a rat’s ass about the title, they’d jump at the chance to get into the greatest company on earth and start rocking the world alongside Steve Jobs.