Apple management: Will more top employees retire?
Now that COO Jeff Williams is leaving the company by the end of the year, further changes at the top of Apple are apparently imminent.
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More and more employees in Apple's top management are approaching retirement age – This is widely known. According to Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman, this could now lead to "even more departures" after Tim Cook's most important man, Chief Operating Officer (COO) Jeff Williams, will retire from the company at the end of the year. Gurman writes that he is hearing "very explicitly" that there will be "more departures from the highest levels of management" at the iPhone company. Gurman did not reveal who this might be. However, he spoke of "at least one major departure" that was due "next year, if not sooner".
A look at Apple's top personnel tableau
Should Tim Cook really remain at the helm of Apple for another five years – he would then be almost 70 years old –, he would have a team of colleagues of retirement age 60+ next to him. This applies, for example, to services boss Eddy Cue (turning 61), software boss Craig Federighi (said to be 57), marketing director Greg Joswiak (turning 62) and retail boss Deirdre O'Brien (turning 60 next year).
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By contrast, hardware boss John Ternus, who has repeatedly been touted as a possible successor to Cook (born 75), and the new CFO Kevan Parekh (born 72) are almost youthful by Apple standards. Williams' direct COO successor Sabih Khan, on the other hand, is only three years younger than his predecessor.
Apple's trick: managers never quite leave
Apple is likely to use a few tricks to keep the knowledge of departing managers in the company. For example, ex-marketing boss Phil Schiller is still employed for keynotes, events and the App Store (as an "Apple Fellow") and COO Williams will also remain responsible for design and health projects until at least the end of the year.
Schiller is unlikely to mean Gurman in the next departures, as he only has one foot in the company anyway. 9to5Mac speculates that it could be Cue or Joswiak, as both are the same age as Williams. However, there have been no recent rumors that they want to leave the company. Joswiak controls all marketing activities, while Cue oversees Apple's hugely important service business, which continues to grow every quarter.
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