- Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, …
- Steve Wozniak
Dr. Stephan Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11 1950 in San Jose, California) is a U.S. computer engineer and the co-founder of Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), with Steve Jobs. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing greatly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s. Wozniak created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s. The Apple II gained a sizable amount of popularity, …
- Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt, Ph.D (b. 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. He also sits on the Princeton University Board of Trustees. He lives in Atherton, California with his wife Wendy.
- Peter Oppenheimer
Peter Oppenheimer is Apple Inc.'s senior vice president and Chief Financial Officer. As CFO, Peter oversees the controller, treasury, investor relations, tax, information systems, internal audit, facilities, corporate development and human resources functions. He reports directly to Apple's CEO Steve Jobs and serves on the company's executive committee.
- Jonathan Ive
Jonathan Paul Ive CBE (born February 1967) is Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is internationally renowned as the principal designer of the iMac, iPod and the iPhone.
- John Gruber
John Gruber (born 1973) is a technical writer and technology pundit, and author of Apple- and Web-related blog Daring Fireball, which he writes as a full-time job. His blog often seeks to refute criticism of Steve Jobs, Apple, and its products. He is also the creator of Markdown, a text-to-HTML formatting syntax for web writers, as well as other web-related side projects.
- Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson is the Senior Vice President of Retail Operations at Apple Computer. He pioneered the concept of the Apple Retail Stores and the Genius Bar, even in the face of stiff criticism from CEO Steve Jobs. Ron joined Apple in September 2000. He previously worked as vice president of merchandising for Target. Under Johnson's direction, Apple's retail stores achieved a record level of growth, exceeding a billion dollars in annual sales within two years of their debut, …
- Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful.
- Gil Amelio
Gilbert F. Amelio (born March 1, 1943 in New York City) is an American technology executive. He grew up in Miami, Florida, and received a bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Amelio worked at Bell Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the semiconductor division of Rockwell International, but is best remembered as a former CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple. Amelio was CEO of National Semiconductor from May 27, 1991, …
- Bertrand Serlet
Bertrand Serlet is senior vice president of software engineering at Apple Inc. He succeeded Avie Tevanian to the position in July 2003. In this position he has been primarily responsible for the release of the 10.4 versions of Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server and the upcoming 10.5 versions. Before Apple he worked at Xerox and NeXT. He spoke at WWDC 2006 on the similarities between Mac OS X Tiger and Windows Vista, …
- Arik Hesseldahl
Arik Hesseldahl (born in 1970) is an American journalist currently working as a senior technology writer for BusinessWeek, a position he's had since 2005. He is the host of the weekly video podcast "Tech 101." He also writes the column "Byte Of The Apple," which focuses on Apple Inc. which has been a regular feature on BusinessWeek's Web site since 2000. He also contributes to BusinessWeek's "Byte Of the Apple" blog with Peter Burrows and Cliff Edwards.
- Arthur D. Levinson
Arthur D. Levinson , Ph. D. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
- Jerry York
Jerome B. York, commonly known as Jerry York, is an American businessman, and the Chairman, President and CEO of Harwinton Capital. He was the former CFO of IBM and Chrysler. He was also CEO of Micro Warehouse and joined the board of directors of Apple Inc. in 1997. He is a chief aide to Kirk Kerkorian and his Tracinda investment company. Most recently, Kerkorian helped elect York to the board of directors of General Motors, …
- Millard Drexler
Millard S. Drexler is a businessman, formerly CEO of Gap Inc, he joined the board of directors of Gap in November 1983 and left his position in October 2002. Since January 2003, Drexler has been Chairman and CEO of J. Crew Group, Inc. He has been a director at Apple Inc. since 1999. He received his MBA from the Boston University Graduate School of Management. In the mid-1970s, he was a Merchandising Vice President and Fashion Director at Abraham & Straus in Brooklyn, NY, …
- Tony Fadell
Tony Fadell is Apple Inc.'s Senior Vice President of the iPod Division, having succeeded Jon Rubinstein in 2006. Fadell graduated from University of Michigan with a BS in Computer Engineering in 1991. While still at Michigan, he was CEO of Constructive Instruments, which marketed MediaText, multimedia composition software for children. He worked for Apple spinoff General Magic for three years, …
- Mike Markkula
Armas Clifford "Mike" Markkula Jr. (born 1942) is a legendary venture capitalist who provided early critical funding for Apple. After his stint there, he continued on to found Echelon Corporation, ACM Aviation, San Jose Jet Center and Rana Creek Habitat Restoration and to endow the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, where he now chairs the Board of Trustees.
- Philip W. Schiller
Philip W. Schiller (born 1960) is the senior vice president of worldwide product marketing at Apple Inc. He is a prominent figure in Apple's public presentations. He reports to Apple CEO Steve Jobs and has been a member of the company's executive leadership team since Jobs's return to Apple in 1997.
- Bill Campbell
Bill Campbell is the current Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Intuit Inc. He formerly worked for Apple Inc. (as VP of Marketing), Claris (as CEO), and GO Corporation (as CEO). Son of a local school official, Campbell was born and raised in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. He attended Columbia University and starred in football. After graduation he coached Columbia's football team for two unremarkable seasons.
- Timothy D. Cook
Timothy D. Cook is the Chief Operating Officer of Apple Inc. and he reports to the CEO, Steve Jobs. Before joining Apple, he worked at Compaq as the VP for Corporate Materials and spent twelve years in IBM's personal computer business as the director of North American Fulfillment. He earned his M.B.A. from Duke University and B.S. in industrial engineering from Auburn University. Cook briefly filled in as Apple CEO when Steve Jobs had pancreatic cancer surgery in 2004.
- Ronald Wayne
Ronald Gerald Wayne (born 1934) is the often forgotten "third founder" of Apple Computer (in addition to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak). He illustrated the first Apple logo and wrote the Apple I manual. While at Apple he also wrote their partnership agreement. Wayne worked with Jobs at Atari before co-founding Apple Computer on April 1, 1976. He was given a 10% stake in Apple, …
- Michael Spindler
Michael Spindler (born 1942 in Germany), nicknamed "the Diesel" for his reputed around-the-clock work habits, was president and CEO of Apple from 1993 to 1996. Having joined Apple in 1980, he rose through the ranks in Apple's European operations as President of Apple Europe and was chosen to take over as CEO when John Sculley was ousted by Apple's board of directors in June 1993. Spindler presided over several successful projects, such as the introduction of the PowerPC, …
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
Former Vice President Al Gore is Vice Chairman of Metropolitan West Financial, LLC, and a member of the firm's executive leadership team. He serves as a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. In March 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of Apple Computers, Inc. Mr. Gore is a Visiting Professor at two universities in Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University and Fisk University, and at UCLA.
- Michael Scott
Michael "Scotty" Scott (born 1943) was the first CEO of Apple from February 1977 to March 1981. Formerly director of manufacturing at National Semiconductor, Mike Markkula convinced Scott to take the CEO position at Apple, as the co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were neither seen as fit for the job at the time. Attempting to set an example for all businesses, in 1979 Scott declared there would be no typewriters at Apple.
- Steve Capps
Steve Capps is a computer programmer and engineer who is best known for his work on the Apple Inc. Macintosh computer and Newton OS during the 1980s and 1990s. He started working at the Xerox Corporation while still a computer science student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. In 1981, Capps started working for Apple on the Lisa project and he continued his work on the Macintosh, principally writing the Finder and Macintosh system utilities.
- Dave Hyatt
Dave Hyatt is an American software developer currently employed by Apple Inc. (since July 15, 2002), where he is part of the development team responsible for the Safari web browser and WebKit framework. Hyatt was part of the original team that shipped the beta releases and 1.0 release of Safari. He is currently the Safari and WebKit Architect. Before Apple, Hyatt worked at Netscape Communications from 1997 to 2002 where he contributed to the Mozilla web browser.
- Nancy R. Heinen
Nancy Regina Heinen was the General Counsel and Secretary for Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) between September 1997 and May of 2006. Before Apple, she was the General Counsel at NeXT (NeXT was purchased by Apple in March of 1996). At NeXT, she served as the first in-house counsel for the company, and created and managed a four-member legal team.
- David Mitchell
David Mitchell (born 14 July 1974 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England) is an English comedian, actor and writer. He is best known as one half of the comedic duo Mitchell and Webb, alongside Robert Webb whom he met at Cambridge University. There they were both part of the Cambridge Footlights, of which Mitchell became President. Together the pair are most famous for starring in the Channel 4 sitcom "Peep Show" in which Mitchell plays Mark Corrigan.
- Laurene Powell Jobs
Laurene Powell Jobs is Founder and President of the Board of College Track, an after-school program that prepares under resourced high school students for higher education. College Track continues to work with students through college graduation. Through its three centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, College Track provides a comprehensive program of academic support, leadership training, community service and extra-curricular involvement.
- Mona Simpson
Mona Simpson (born June 14, 1957 in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is a novelist and essayist. She was born to an American mother, Joanne Carole Schieble, and a Syrian father, political science professor Abdulfattah John Jandali. She is the younger sister of Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc. Jobs was given up for adoption as a baby by his then-unmarried mother; the two siblings only met each other as adults. She attended the University of California at Berkeley, …
- Kevin Marks
Kevin Marks is author of the weblog Epeus Epigone and a software engineer at Google. He became principal engineer for Technorati after doing work for both Apple and the BBC. He is an advocate of Microformats. At the first BloggerCon, Marks discussed the power curve as it applies to weblogs: <blockquote>The net changes the power law of the media curve. If you look at relative popularity on the web, using something like Technorati, …
- Darren Barefoot
Darren Barefoot is a writer and marketing executive based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a founding partner at Capulet Communications, a public relations firm specializing in high technology companies. Barefoot wrote a monthly column for the "Yaletown View", whose parent company publishes magazines in British Columbia and California. Barefoot has also written for the Vancouver Sun and "Victoria News" newspapers, …
- Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Lisa Nicole Brennan-Jobs (born May 17 1978), the daughter of Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple Inc.) and Chrisann Brennan, is a journalist and magazine writer. She was born just as Apple Computer began to experience significant growth. The Apple Lisa computer was supposedly named after her, though, officially, Apple stated that the name was an acronym for "Local Integrated Software Architecture".
- Mike Matas
Mike Matas (born March 23, 1986) is the co-founder of the software company Delicious Monster along with Wil Shipley. He previously worked for The Omni Group, designing icons and user interfaces. Currently he works for Apple Inc.
- Eric Zelenka
Eric Zelenka is a senior worldwide product marketing manager at Apple Inc..
- Dale Fuller
Dale Fuller was named the interim chief executive officer and president of McAfee, Inc.(NYSE:MFE) from October, 2006 through April, 2007. He joined the McAfee Board in January 2006 and previously served more than six years as Chief Executive Officer and President of Borland Software Corporation. Mr. Fuller was also CEO of WhoWhere? Inc., an internet company that was purchased by Lycos in 1998, …
- Richard Crandall
Richard E. Crandall is an American computer scientist who has made contributions to computational number theory, most notably the development of the irrational base discrete weighted transform, an important method of finding very large primes. He has, at various times, been Chief Scientist at NeXT Inc. and Apple's Chief Cryptographer. He is currently Vollum Adjunct Professor of Science and director of the Center for Advanced Computation at Reed College.
- Dominic Giampaolo
Dominic B. Giampaolo is a software developer who is famous for developing the Be File System for the BeOS operating system and currently works at Apple Inc. After graduating from Lewiston High School in Lewiston, Maine in 1987, He started studying political science at American University in Washington, DC, but changed to computer science after one semester. After completing his bachelor's degree, he did a master's degree at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
- Dominique Trempont
Dominique Trempont is an American corporate executive and board member in large multinational high tech companies and start-ups. His experience spans a globally-run material science corporation to enterprise and consumer focused software and services. He spent the first 14 years of his career as a key executive at Raychem with worldwide responsibilities and a focus on large scale turnarounds in the United States, China, India, Japan, Latin America and Europe.
- Polly Paulusma
Polly Paulusma is an English singer-songwriter. Her first album, "Scissors in my Pocket", was largely recorded and produced by herself at her home. A second album, "Cosmic Rosy Spine Kites" (a virtual anagram of the title of the first album) features the same tracks, four of which were recorded with a string quartet (and without guitars or percussion); the rest at a gig in Manchester, England, where she supported Jamie Cullum.
- Graham Robertson
Graham Robertson is an American filmmaker and author. A native of Denver, Colorado, Robertson studied film at the College of Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Shortly thereafter, he found his way into the motion picture industry via set decoration and the art department working on numerous television series and feature films. In 2000, Robertson, along with co-creator Philip Stark unleased a viral internet spoof, …