“Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, who transformed the company he started at age 21 from a personal-computer also-ran into the world’s largest technology company, resigned,” Adam Satariano reports for Bloomberg. “Jobs, who will become chairman, was on medical leave since Jan. 17 after combating a rare form of cancer since 2003 and surviving a liver transplant in 2009. He is succeeded by Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, 50, who has been running day-to-day operations.”
Satariano reports, “Cook joined Apple in 1998. As operating chief, his oversight included sales, manufacturing and distribution. ‘The world will see in the next several years that Tim is a very uniquely gifted guy and Apple will be wildly successful under his leadership,’ said John Connors, a venture capitalist at Ignition Partners, who serves on the Nike Inc. board with Cook.”
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MacDailyNews Note: According to his Ignition Partners’ bio: Prior to joining Ignition, John Connors spent sixteen years at Microsoft Corporation in several strategic roles. From January 2000 to April 2005 he was senior vice president of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jaxtoon” for the heads up.]