14 DAY TRIAL // The Leadership Page at Apple has been enriched with a new list of vice presidents. Not only that the people are fairly new, but the positions they have accepted look like they were created just for them.
One other detail worth mentioning is the fact that the new list has a little bit of everything. Following Apple's diversity report, these new positions seem to work towards expanding the ideas of new kind of people in upper management. We see two women and guys with different ethnicities.
First up is Paul Deneve, the new vice president of the Special Projects department. He is reporting to Tim Cook and according to his short bio on Apple's website, he was with Apple from 1990 to 1997, when he took different roles in Apple Europe's Marketing department. Deneve was until 2013 the CEO of Saint Laurent Paris.
He was also the president of Lanvin and Nina Ricci after he graduated University of Brussels and got his MBA from the University of Chicago.
Lisa Jackson is the new vice president of Environmental Initiatives. She was recently involved in the project of using green technology as part of Apple's iCloud farm in the USA. Mrs. Jackson comes from a position in the Environmental Protection Agency, where she was appointed by the president Barack Obama.
Lisa Jackson showed up in a TV report about Apple's way of cleaning up their act and she published the company's newest environmental report, talking about the Apple Campus 2, the future green headquarters of the Cupertino-based company.
Joel Podolny took the dean position at Apple University. He has been with Apple for six years and before that he was a the dean at Yale School of Management and professor of Sociology, Business Administration, Leadership, and Management at Harvard Business School.
Johny Srouji is the guy who created Apple's first system on a chip, A4, back in 2008. He is now the newest vice president of Hardware Technologies at Apple. Srouji comes from Israel and he was previously with IBM and Intel. His new position was highly praised in his home country. Major newspapers like Israel Hayom and the Jerusalem Post report that he is a former Haifa resident and has held two major positions in the company so far.
Srouji is also mentioned as the inventor and author of two of the most important Apple patents regarding iOS devices processors.
Denise Young Smith is the vice president of Worldwide Human Resources and she managed to get some of the best and newest management acquisitions lately. Smith has been with Apple since 1997.
