Jon Rubinstein to Retire March 31 and be Succeeded by Tony Fadell

Jon Rubinstein to Retire March 31 and be Succeeded by Tony Fadell

Apple® today named Tim Cook its chief operating officer. Cook, who has been Apple’s executive vice president of Worldwide Sales and Operations since 2002, will continue to report to Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Tim has been doing this job for over two years now, and it’s high time we officially recognized it with this promotion,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Tim and I have worked together for over seven years now, and I am looking forward to working even more closely with him to help Apple reach some exciting goals during the coming years.”

Cook will continue to be responsible for all of the company’s worldwide sales and operations, and will continue to lead the company’s Macintosh Division. In addition, he will work closely with Jobs and the executive team to lead Apple’s overall business. Apple also announced that Jon Rubinstein, Apple’s senior vice president of the iPod Division will retire on March 31 and be succeeded by Tony Fadell. Fadell will report to Steve Jobs and take over all aspects of iPod engineering.

“I’ve worked with Jon for over 15 years, and we’re going to miss him. Jon has done an excellent job as a member of Apple’s senior management team, as well as building our world-class iPod engineering team and running our hardware engineering team prior to that,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Tony has been doing a superb job running a large part of the iPod engineering team, and we’re expecting a very smooth transition.”

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