Apple board to decide on Schmidt replacement
Published: 14 Aug 2009 08:28 BST
On Tuesday, Apple's board of directors will gather to take up the question of who will replace Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
Schmidt recently left Apple's board after three years, citing concerns that Apple and his own company's businesses were beginning to overlap too much. Both are players in the mobile-phone market (Google's Android operating system competes with Apple's iPhone) and soon will compete in desktop operating systems, when Google releases its Chrome OS.
The board could bring in a new director from the outside, but there has been talk that chief operating officer Tim Cook, who assumed the helm for chief executive Steve Jobs while he was on a six-month medical leave of absence earlier this year, is at least being considered.
Besides Jobs, the board has six other members: Intuit chairman Bill Campbell, J Crew chief executive Millard Drexler, former vice president Al Gore, Avon chief executive Andrea Jung, Genentech chairman Arthur Levinson, and former chief financial officer of IBM and Chrysler Jerry York.
Credit: Report: Apple board discussing replacement for Schmidt next week from CNET News
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