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A chief executive officer (CEO, American English), managing director (MD, British English),[1] executive director (ED, American English) for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer (executive) or administrator in charge of total management of an organization. An individual appointed as a CEO of a corporation, company, organization, or agency typically reports to the board of directors.
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The responsibilities of an organization's CEO (US) or MD (UK) are set by the organization's board of directors or other authority, depending on the organization's legal structure. They can be far-reaching or quite limited and are typically enshrined in a formal delegation of authority.
Typically, the CEO/MD has responsibilities as a communicator, decision maker, leader, and manager. The communicator role can involve the press and the rest of the outside world, as well as the organization's management and employees; the decision-making role involves high-level decisions about policy and strategy. As a leader, the CEO/MD advises the board of directors, motivates employees, and drives change within the organization. As a manager, the CEO/MD presides over the organization's day-to-day, month-to-month, and year-to-year operations.[2]
In some European Union countries, there are two separate boards, one executive board for the day-to-day business and one supervisory board for control purposes (selected by the shareholders). In these countries, the CEO presides over the executive board and the chairman presides over the supervisory board, and these two roles will always be held by different people. This ensures a distinction between management by the executive board and governance by the supervisory board. This allows for clear lines of authority. The aim is to prevent a conflict of interest and too much power being concentrated in the hands of one person. In the United States, the board of directors (elected by the shareholders) is often equivalent to the supervisory board, while the executive board may often be known as the executive committee (the division/subsidiary heads and C-level officers that report directly to the CEO).
In other parts of the world, such as Asia, it is possible to have two or three CEOs in charge of one corporation. In the UK, many charities and government agencies are headed by a chief executive who answers to a board of trustees or board of directors. In the UK, similar to a sizable percentage of public companies in the US, the chairman of the board in public companies is more senior than the chief executive (who is usually known as the managing director).
The following presents an alphabetical list of some international common terms for the CEO position:
In the United States, and in business, the executive officers are usually the top officers of a corporation, the chief executive officer (CEO) being the best-known type. The definition varies; for instance, the California Corporate Disclosure Act defines "Executive Officers" as the five most highly compensated officers not also sitting on the board of directors. In the case of a sole proprietorship, an executive officer is the sole proprietor. In the case of a partnership, an executive officer is a managing partner, senior partner, or administrative partner. In the case of a limited liability company, an executive officer is any member, manager, or officer.
Typically, a CEO has several subordinate executives, each of whom has specific functional responsibilities.
Common associates include a chief business development officer (CBDO), chief financial officer (CFO), chief operating officer (COO), chief marketing officer (CMO), chief information officer (CIO), chief communications officer (CCO), chief legal officer (CLO), chief technology officer (CTO), chief risk officer (CRO), chief creative officer (CCO), chief compliance officer (CCO), chief audit executive (CAE), chief diversity officer (CDO), or chief human resources officer (CHRO).
Hospitals and healthcare organizations also often include a chief medical officer (CMO), a chief nursing officer (CNO), and a chief medical informatics officer (CMIO).
In the United Kingdom the term 'director' is used instead of 'chief officer'. Associates include the audit executive, business development director, chief executive, compliance director, creative director, director of communications, diversity director, financial director, human resources director, information technology director, legal affairs director, managing director (MD), marketing director, operations director and technical director.
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Born | Alan Roger Mulally August 4, 1945 Oakland, California, USA |
Residence | Dearborn, Michigan, USA[1] |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | University of Kansas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Occupation | President and CEO of Ford Motor Company |
Salary | US$1.4 million salary + US$16.5 million other compensation (2009)[2] |
Spouse | Jane "Nikki" Connell |
Children | 5 |
Parents | Charles R. "Dick" Mulally Lauraine Lizette Clark Mulally[1] |
Alan Roger Mulally (born August 4, 1945) is an American engineer and business executive who is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Ford Motor Company. Ford, which had been struggling during the late-2000s recession, returned to profitability under Mulally and was the only American major car manufacturer to avoid government-sponsored bankruptcy.[3][4]
Mulally was previously executive vice president of Boeing and the CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA). He began his career with Boeing as an engineer in 1969 and was largely credited with BCA's resurgence against Airbus in the mid-2000s.[5]
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Mulally was born in Oakland, California to Charles R. "Dick" Mulally and Lauraine Lizette Clark, who met at a USO dance.[1][6] Mulally grew up in his mother's hometown of Lawrence, Kansas, where he was a member of Plymouth Congregational Church. He considered Rev. Dale Turner "a mentor and an inspiration."[1][7] He used to sit at the front of the church to study the minister's influence on the congregation. Mulally said that he found himself motivated at the age of 17 by president John F. Kennedy's challenge to send a man to the moon.[8]
Mulally graduated from the University of Kansas, also his mother's alma mater,[1] in 1969 with Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in aeronautical and astronautical engineering. He is an alumnus of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity and is its 2007 Man of the Year.[9] He received a Master's degree in Management (S.M.) as a Sloan Fellow from the MIT Sloan School of Management[10] in 1982.[11]
Mulally was hired by Boeing immediately out of college in 1969 as an engineer. He held a number of engineering and program management positions, making contributions to the Boeing 727, 737, 747, 757, 767 and 777 projects. He led the cockpit design team on the 757/767 project. Its revolutionary design featured the first all-digital flight deck in a commercial aircraft, the first two man crew for long range aircraft, and a common type rating for pilots on two different aircraft. He worked on the 777 program first as director of engineering and, from September 1992, as vice-president and general manager.[11]
He was later named as Vice President of Engineering for the commercial airplane group. He is known and recognized for elevating Phil Condit's "Working Together"-philosophy through and beyond the 777-program. In 1994, Mulally was promoted to senior vice president of Airplane Development and was in charge of all airplane development activities, flight test operations, certification, and government technical liaison. In 1997, Mulally became the president of the Information, Space & Defense Systems and senior vice president.[12] He held this position until 1998 when he was made president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Chief Executive Officer duties were added in 2001.[11]
Following the forced resignations of Phil Condit in 2003 and Harry Stonecipher in 2005, Mulally was considered one of the leading internal candidates for the CEO position.[13] When Mulally was passed over in both instances, questions were raised about whether he would remain with the company.
For Mulally's performance at Boeing, Aviation Week & Space Technology named him as person of the year for 2006.[5]
"An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air." (on being asked "How are you going to tackle something as complex and unfamiliar as the auto business when we are in such tough financial shape?")
Mulally was named the President and CEO of Ford Motor Company on September 5, 2006, succeeding William Clay Ford, Jr., who remained as Executive Chairman of the company's Board of Directors.[15] Mulally was criticized for calling his Lexus LS430 the 'finest car in the world', just as Ford was about to announce his selection as CEO.[16][17] William Clay Ford Jr. had been searching for his successor as Ford CEO for some time, with Daimler AG's Dieter Zetsche and Carlos Ghosn of Renault/Nissan Motors both turning down the offer.
One of Mulally's first decisions at Ford was to bring back the Taurus nameplate. He said that he could not understand why the company previously scrapped the Taurus, which had been one of the company's best sellers until losing ground in the late 1990s.[18]
Mulally took over "The Way Forward" restructuring plan at Ford to turn-around its massive losses and declining market share.[19] Mulally's cost cutting initiatives led to the company's first profitable quarter in two years.[20] Dividends to shareholders were also suspended.[21]
In 2006, Mulally led the effort for Ford to borrow US$23.6 billion by mortgaging all of Ford's assets. Mulally said that he intended to use the money to finance a major overhaul and provide “a cushion to protect for a recession or other unexpected event." [22] At the time the loan was interpreted as a sign of desperation, but is now widely credited with stabilizing Ford's financial position, compared to crosstown rivals General Motors and Chrysler, both of whom had gone bankrupt during the Automotive industry crisis of 2008–2009. Ford was the only one of the Detroit Three that did not ask for a government loan.[23]. In May 2009, Ford chairman William Clay Ford, who hired Mulally, said that "Alan was the right choice [to be CEO], and it gets more right every day".[14]
In 2007, he presided over the sale of Jaguar Cars and Land Rover to Tata Motors, an Indian car and truck manufacturer. Mulally said he had "no regrets" over the sale, preferring to concentrate on the Ford brand, as then-CEO Jacques Nasser was criticized in 2001 for paying too much attention to new overseas acquisitions while letting the main Ford operations in the US decline. Ford received $2.3 billion USD on the sale, considerably below what they paid for it under Nasser and Donald Petersen. However, analysts said that Ford would have gotten much less or may not have found a buyer if they tried to sell it later in 2008, as Jaguar Land Rover sales subsequently plummeted due to high oil prices in the summer, causing Tata to request a bailout from the British government.[24] Mulally also sold off Aston Martin and Volvo Cars, and reduced Ford's stake in Mazda.[23]
In 2008, amid mounting losses during an economic downturn, Ford announced a proposal on December 2, 2008 to cut Mulally's salary to $1 per year if government loans were received and used by Ford.[25][26] During hearings for government loans to Ford, he and other industry leaders were criticized for flying to Washington, D.C. in corporate jets. During a subsequent meeting, he traveled from Detroit to Washington by a Ford-built hybrid electric vehicle, while selling all but one of the company's corporate jets.[27]
In 2008, Mulally earned a total compensation of $13,565,378, which included a base salary of $2,000,000, stock awards of $1,849,241, and option awards of $8,669,747. His total compensation decreased by 37.4% compared to 2007.[28]
Due to his achievements at Ford, he was included in the 2009 Time 100 list. The entry, written by Steve Ballmer, says, "[Mulally] understands the fundamentals of business success as well as any business leader I know."[29]
In 2011, Mulally was named Person of the Year by the The Financial Times ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business Awards.[30] He was also named the 2011 CEO of the Year by Chief Executive magazine.[31]
Everybody says you can't make money off small cars. Well, you'd better damn well figure out how to make money because that's where the world is going.
Mulally negotiated four new agreements with United Auto Workers, which has brought down labor costs from $76/hour to $55/hour.[14]
He lives within three miles of his office at Ford's global headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, arrives at 5:15 AM every morning, and works for twelve hours. He has a meeting with Ford's executives, called a "Business Plan Review" every Thursday at 7:00 AM in the "Thunderbird Room" at Ford Headquarters.[14] At a "town meeting" of 100 information technology staffers in February 2007, Mulally said, "We have been going out of business for 40 years", and has repeated this message to other employee groups.[32]
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Born | Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen January 12, 1964 Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. |
Alma mater | Princeton University |
Occupation | Chairman and CEO of Amazon.com |
Net worth | US$ 18.4 billion (2012)[1] |
Awards | Time Person of the Year 1999 |
Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos (/beɪzəs/, born January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, Inc., an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products. Under his guidance, Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and the model for Internet sales.
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Bezos was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen and Ted Jorgensen.[2] His maternal ancestors were settlers who lived in Texas, and over the generations acquired a 25,000 acre (101 km2 or 39 miles2) ranch in Cotulla. Bezos' maternal grandfather was a regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in Albuquerque. He retired early to the ranch, where Bezos spent many summers as a youth, working with him.[3] At an early age, Bezos displayed a striking mechanical aptitude – as a toddler, he tried dismantling his crib with a screwdriver.[4]
Bezos was born to a teenage mother in Albuquerque. Her marriage to his father lasted little more than a year. When Jeff was five, she remarried, this time to Miguel Bezos. Miguel was born in Cuba, immigrated to the United States alone when he was fifteen years old, worked his way through the University of Albuquerque, married, and legally adopted Jeff. After the marriage, the family moved to Houston, Texas, and Miguel became an engineer for Exxon. The young Bezos attended River Oaks Elementary School in Houston from fourth to sixth grade. As a child, he spent summers at his grandfather's ranch in southern Texas, "laying pipe, vaccinating cattle and fixing windmills."[5]
Bezos often showed intense scientific interests. He rigged an electric alarm to keep his younger siblings out of his room. He converted his parents' garage into a laboratory for science projects.[citation needed] The family moved to Miami, Florida, where Bezos attended Miami Palmetto Senior High School. While in high school, he attended the Student Science Training Program at the University of Florida, receiving a Silver Knight Award in 1982.[6] He was high school valedictorian.[7] He attended Princeton University, planning to study physics, but soon returned to his love of computers and graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science.
According to Nick Hanauer (an early investor in Amazon) and "others who know [him]"[5], Bezos is a libertarian; such beliefs are said to have help motivate Amazon.com's aggressive "efforts to avoid collecting sales taxes on purchases made on its website" and the company's unwillingness to engage in "sponsorships, matching grants or employee volunteer programs".[5]
After graduating from Princeton University in 1986, Bezos worked on Wall Street in the computer science field.[8] Then he worked on building a network for international trade for a company known as Fitel. He next worked at Bankers Trust, where he became vice-president. Later on he also worked in computer science for D. E. Shaw & Co.
Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 after making a cross-country drive from New York to Seattle, writing up the Amazon business plan on the way. He initially set up the company in his garage.[9] He had left his "well-paying job" at a New York City hedge fund when he "learned about the rapid growth in Internet use", which coincided with a "then-new U.S. Supreme Court ruling [that] online retailers don't have to collect sales taxes in states where they lack a physical presence"; he had headed to Washington because its relatively small population meant fewer of his future customers would have to pay sales tax.[5]
Amazon eventually made him one of the most prominent dot-com entrepreneurs and a billionaire. Bezos' salary as CEO was $81,840 in 2010, in addition to the $1.6 million cost of his personal security detail.[10] He owns 20% of Amazon's stock and forgoes stock options.
According to Forbes, Amazon's shares have "defied gravity" in 2011, jumping 55% and adding $6.5 billion to his net worth.[11]
Bezos is known for his attention to business details. As described by Portfolio.com, he "is at once a happy-go-lucky mogul and a notorious micromanager. ... an executive who wants to know about everything from contract minutiae to how he is quoted in all Amazon press releases."[9]
In 2000, Bezos founded Blue Origin, a human spaceflight startup company,[12] partially as a result of his fascination with space travel,[13] including an early interest in developing "space hotels, amusement parks and colonies for 2 million or 3 million people orbiting the Earth."[7] The company was kept under wraps for a half dozen years and initially became publicly known only in 2006 when purchasing a sizable aggregation of land in west Texas for a launch and test facility.[14]
In a 2011 interview, Bezos indicated that he founded the space company to help enable "anybody to go into space" and stated that the company is committed to decreasing the cost and increasing the safety of spaceflight.[15] Blue Origin is "one of several start-ups aiming to open up space travel to paying customers. Like Amazon, the company is secretive, but [in September 2011] revealed that it had lost an unmanned prototype vehicle during a short-hop test flight. Although this was a setback, the announcement of the loss revealed for the first time just how far Blue Origin’s team had advanced."[13] Bezos said that the crash was 'not the outcome that any of us wanted, but we’re signed up for this to be hard.'" [13]
He was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.[16] In 2008, he was selected by U.S. News & World Report as one of America's best leaders.[17] Bezos was awarded an honorary doctorate in Science and Technology from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. In 2011, The Economist gave Bezos and Gregg Zehr an Innovation Award for the Amazon Kindle. [18]
He is also a member of the Bilderberg Group and attended the Swiss 2011 Bilderberg conference in St. Moritz, Switzerland.[19]
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Birth name | Timothy Lockwood Armstrong |
Also known as | Lint, Tim Timebomb |
Born | Berkeley, California, United States |
November 25, 1965
Origin | Albany, California, U.S. |
Genres | Punk rock, ska punk, street punk, hardcore punk |
Occupations | Musician, songwriter, producer |
Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, synthesizer, harmonica |
Years active | 1980–present |
Labels | Lookout!, Hellcat, Epitaph |
Associated acts | Rancid, Devils Brigade, Transplants, Operation Ivy, Dance Hall Crashers, Downfall, Basic Radio, Shaken 69, Box Car Racer, The Silencers, The LJs, Generator, Danny Diablo |
Website | www.ratsinthehallway.com[dead link] |
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Hagström Viking Gretsch Country Club Gibson SG |
Timothy Lockwood Armstrong (born November 25, 1965)[1] is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known for his work with punk rock bands Rancid, Operation Ivy, Downfall, and the Transplants. He is also the owner and operator of Hellcat Records.
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Armstrong was born November 25, 1965 and was raised primarily by his mother. At the age of five, he met Matt Freeman while playing Little League Baseball in Albany, California. Freeman and Armstrong formed a band many years later based on their shared love of bands such as The Clash and the Ramones. They both went to Albany Middle and High School. Armstrong married musician Brody Dalle in 1997, when she was only 18 and the couple divorced in 2003. Many of the lyrics on the album Indestructible deal with Armstrong's feelings about his divorce.
Basic Radio was founded in 1985 and included Matt Freeman and Tim Armstrong. The band never released any albums or EPs, but recorded demos, and soon after its break-up, Operation Ivy was founded.
In 1987, along with singer Jesse Michaels and drummer Dave Mello, Armstrong and Freeman formed the ska punk band Operation Ivy and enjoyed modest success before the group disbanded in 1989, the same night the album was released. The band would go on to achieve worldwide cult success in the years following its break-up.
Downfall was an aftershock of Operation Ivy. Armstrong, Freeman, and Mello were joined by Mello's brother Pat, and Jason Hammon. Pat and Jason would both play guitar, while Armstrong took up duties on vocals. They lasted three months (December 1989 to March 1990), playing only at a few parties and twice at Gilman St. They released one song on Maximumrocknroll's They Don't Get Paid, They Don't Get Laid, but Boy, Do They Work Hard! compilation, one song on David Hayes' Very Small World compilation, one song on Lookout! Records' Can of Pork compilation, and recorded a demo. It disbanded when Freeman joined MDC on bass while Armstrong was a roadie for the band, while Pat and Dave went on to form Schlong.
After the demise of Operation Ivy, Armstrong (being severely depressed) began to suffer from alcoholism, and eventually became homeless.[2] During this time, Freeman suggested the two start a new band together, partially in hopes of curbing Armstrong's alcohol addiction. Armstrong began writing songs that would appear on their first album. Their new band, Rancid would eventually go on to become one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful punk rock bands of all time.
In 1999, Armstrong invited roadie Rob Aston ("Skinhead Rob") to add lyrics to some solo material that Armstrong had been creating in his basement, and the two worked together writing and recording music. They formed the group Transplants with Travis Barker of Blink-182 and released their self-titled debut album on October 22, 2002. A second Transplants album, Haunted Cities, was released on June 21, 2005. The Transplants break-up was confirmed by Rob Aston on January 16, 2006, when he told a reporter that the group had split. However, Barker has recently announced that the trio is currently working on a new album. They played their first show since 2006 on Conan to promote the bands drummer, Travis Barker, new solo album by playing the song "Saturday Night" which is featured on Barker's solo album. It was announced in November 2011 on the Transplants official Facebook page that their new album would be "finished" in December 2011.
Armstrong co-wrote eight songs with Pink for her 2003 album Try This. He has also collaborated with Gwen Stefani on her debut album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. and has contributed guest vocals on songs for such bands as Bad Religion, Time Again, The Matches, Mest, Good Charlotte, Head Automatica, The Aggrolites and Box Car Racer. He and Matt Freeman also play in a psychobilly band called Devils Brigade. In 2007, he released his first solo album entitled A Poet's Life with The Aggrolites as his backing band. The track from that album "Into Action" was reported as the number one most played and requested in 2007 on then XM Satellite Radio channel Fungus 53.[3] It was announced on August 12, 2011 that Tim Armstrong was working on an album with reggae artist Jimmy Cliff.[4] Their first single, a cover of The Clash song "The Guns of Brixton", was released on October 4, 2011. Sacred Fire EP was released late November 2011 and they are planning to release a full length album in 2012.
Armstrong started Hellcat Records in 1997 as a sub-label of Epitaph, owned by Armstrong's friend and Bad Religion member Brett Gurewitz. Armstrong acts as a talent scout for Hellcat, and has final say concerning what groups are signed to the label. Armstrong also owns the merchandise manufacturer Machete Mfg,[5] which provides merchandise for bands on Hellcat Records.
In 2010, Gretsch Guitars introduced the G5191BK Tim Armstrong Electromatic guitar. The single cutaway hollowbody electric guitar featured a 17" wide body in a flat-black urethane finish, parallel tone bars and sound post, two “Black Top” Filter'Tron pickups, Grover tuners, big block fretboard inlays, a harp tailpiece and gold-plated hardware. Gretsch advertising for the model prominently features Armstrong with the guitar.[6] It is based on his 1970's-era Gretsch Country Club model which he spray-painted black and flipped to accommodate his left-handed playing.[7] The signature model is available in both right and left-handed models. Fender also put out a signature acoustic model based on Tim's favorite 60's era Fender acoustic guitar. The "Hellcat" has hellcat inlays in the 3 5 and 7th fret positions and two skulls in the 12th fret. It is outfitted with a tortoise shell pick guard and Fishman brand electronics. It is available in right and left handed models.
Guitar and backing vocals. Credited as "Lint".
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Born | Timothy D. Cook November 1, 1960 Robertsdale, Alabama United States |
Alma mater | Auburn University (B.S.) Duke University (M.B.A.) |
Occupation | CEO, Apple |
Board member of | Apple Nike (2005—present) |
Timothy D. “Tim” Cook (born November 1, 1960) is the CEO of Apple.[1] Cook joined Apple in March 1998[2] as SVP of Worldwide Operations and also served as EVP of Worldwide Sales and Operations and was COO[3] until he was named the CEO of Apple on August 24, 2011, succeeding Steve Jobs, who died on October 5, 2011, from pancreatic cancer. Cook had previously served as acting CEO of Apple after Jobs began a medical leave in January 2011.[4]
In early 2012, he was awarded compensation of 1 million shares, vesting in 2021, by Apple's Board of Directors.[5] As of April 2012, these shares are valued at US $600 million, making him the world's highest paid CEO.[6]
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Cook grew up in Robertsdale, Alabama, near Mobile. His father was a shipyard worker, while his mother was a homemaker. Cook graduated from high school at Robertsdale High School, earned a B.S. degree in industrial engineering from Auburn University in 1982,[7] and his M.B.A. from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in 1988.[8]
Cook spent six months at Compaq as VP for Corporate Materials before he was hired by Steve Jobs to join Apple in 1998. He initially served as Senior Vice President for Worldwide Operations.[2] Prior to that, Cook served as the chief operating officer (COO) of the computer reseller division of Intelligent Electronics and spent 12 years in IBM's personal computer business as the director of North American Fulfillment.[2]
Cook is credited with pulling Apple out of manufacturing by closing factories and warehouses around the world. This helped the company reduce inventory levels and streamline its supply chain, dramatically increasing margins.[9] In January 2007, Cook was promoted to COO.[10]
Cook served as Apple CEO for two months in 2004, when Jobs was recovering from pancreatic cancer surgery. In 2009, Cook again served as Apple CEO for several months while Jobs took a leave of absence for a liver transplant.
In January 2011, Apple's Board of Directors approved a third medical leave of absence requested by Jobs. During that time, Cook was responsible for most of Apple’s day-to-day operations while Jobs made most major decisions.[11] Following the resignation of Jobs, Cook was made CEO of Apple Inc. on August 24, 2011.[12][13]
Cook also serves on the board of directors of Nike.[3]
Cook is a fitness enthusiast and enjoys hiking, cycling, and going to the gym. He regularly begins sending emails at 4:30 am and used to hold Sunday night staff meetings by telephone to prepare for the next week.[9]
While giving the 2010 commencement speech at Auburn University, Cook emphasized the importance of intuition in guiding his life's biggest choices, and followed by stating that preparation and hard work are also necessary to execute on that intuition.[14]
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Rich parents and poor hygiene
Born in the 40's to a life of luxury
You sucked all the right cocks well
To get a really nice job your dad can tell
You call home and say you're working late
But there's another thing now that just can't wait...
What a leader the CEO!
His big secret just doesn't show
He pays a girl to get him through
Puts on his diaper and feed him gruel
A big house, the suburban dream you have
A boring ass wife and a daughter crack queen
You drink drive the brand new car
Na djust bribe another cop when you get caught
You whine out loud 'bout the income tax
Because the monthly 5000 Euros never last
What a leader the CEO!
His big secret just doesn't show
He pays a girl to get him through
Puts on his diaper and feed him gruel
I'm at the top and there's nowhere else to go
You can call me nice or you can call me CEO
Cuz if you dis I'll be quick to dismiss ya
Put you in the mailroom where I won't even miss ya
The color of my Amex is strictly platinum
Would you like to do lunch ya'all can come
Put the fancy food on my plate
Cuz I'm livin so large you can call me Bill Gates
I'm the CEO!
I'm the CEO!
I'm the CEO take a business card
I'm the CEO and I'm livin' damn hard
I'm the CEO!
Don't waste my time cuz my time is your money
Did I hear someone laugh, the shit ain't funny
Cause I can work 9-5 like I was Dolly Parton
But I'm makin' suckers wish that they never went to Wharton
This ain't no small business like the Hair Club for Men
In the Fortune 500 well I'm in the top ten
Now I'm talkin' on the cell phone but don't touch that dial
Better yet get off that butt open the drawer get me a file
The style that I sport is always Bergdorf's
I don't take no retortin' cause my desk is my basketball court
I play the sport with all the heavy hitters
And at Sotheby's I'm the highest fuckin' bidder
I'm the CEO!
I'm the CEO!
Where's my fuckin' secretary?
Yeah I'll call you back next january
I'm the CEO!
This takeover's kinda hostile
Men beneath me- docile
Excuse me but my driver's waiting outside
And I got to jet
Of course, the private jet
50 men in suits to serve me inside
And if you don't know, now you know!
I'm the CEO!
I'm the CEO!
Better than the president
Your yearly wage is what I pay for rent
I'm the CEO! OHHHHHHH
I'm the CEO!
I'm the CEO!
I'm the CEO take a business card
I'm the CEO and I'm livin' damn hard
I'm the CEO! OHHHHHHHH
[Hook: Nipsey Hussle]
Look I'm a all money in CEO,
Witch means that fly money is the life I chose,
And they say I think I'm the shit,
But I don't think I kno,
Cause ain't nobody gave us nuttin we just got our own, [x2]
[Nipsey Hussle:]
We standin on the coutches poppin bottles smokin weed,
Fuckin bitches lovin life makin money countin cheese,
Flow safe cubin links more cake u would think,
It's our birth day bitches thirsty but we never let em drink,
First class leather seats blue guccis on my feet,
Or either chuck taylors get money fuck haters,
Wus up to chuck taylor my nigga compton menace,
Ate all black wall forever ya'll my niggas,
Lax fifty cities wuts next volume thrizzy,
Then december twenty second south central state of mizzy,
I bet a hundred thousand that I fuck up the city,
The king of L.A. is young Nipsey,
And if I'm not I'm so hot I feel I got that right,
A nigga slept him that day and he got shot that night,
Choices to consequences if I chip him it's life,
So gettin back for me is like... fuckin his wife,
Imagine that to transition from slauson to my position got a deal went to jail my bro wus fresh up out of prison,
And niggas looked like I fuck off wut I was givin,
But the truth is I'm not used to this new way I make my livin,
And since I can't rewind back to dime sacks and shoot outs and cadillacs a young nigga gotta rap,
And goin through it I still knew that I was that nigga plus the walls on my condo need a plack,
[Hook:]
Look I'm a all money in CEO,
Witch meens that fly money is the life I chose
[Yung Brodee:]
I'm a fly money all money in individual,
Pullin racks out for a little bit of visual,
Independent money but they swear we some criminals,
CEO a couple mills is wut 'm gettin to,
And I'm all ways workin deals in the livin room,
Cannin dirty money still I think we need a bigger room,
And when they see me they say quick wut do that nigga do,
Bu they can tell that I'm all about some revenues,
Spend quick never sit like residue,
A rock will show these niggas wut my good credit do,
700 or higher u can't clone that,
Heard u on a record label already owns that,
Something bout Brodee I ain't never gave a loan back,
Never had to pay that,
Get that money asap,
Had a big dream like pushin up in a maybach,
On my J Brown shit yea the big payback,
Dirty money were I'm from never should u trase that,
And we coppin property u losin we replace that,
[Kid Cali:]
And I'm on,
Friendinesh put that on the sinernet,
All money in I'm droppin after Nip ain't that some shit,
They can't believe it's not butter,
The nigga in the mix like apple pucker,
Fresh off the movie set phil in her hooters next,
Wut the fuck did u expect,
Nigga we the best like fuck the rest,
I whip a bitch I hit the switch I'm the shit yea I admit I'm a dog I'm a ass I last,
That nigga bust fast he trash,
'm gone n them upper rooms,
Dodgin all them dummy dudes,
Duckin all them sucker niggas,
Gotta get toughe nigga,
I try to tell u lil mama I ain't that other nigga,
Wait wholed up them niggas got me fucked up,
Talkin bout I lucked,
Up really wut the fuck is up,
Back on that bullshit gettin my Mr. Hanky on,
Duck duck deuce nigga,
Who the fuck is u nigga,
Flyer than a sum bitch I run shit,
Naw I ain't the CEO but I be in them videos,
Fuckin all them groupie hos,
I'm nigga douby toe,
Wings spread watch em shed nigga yeaarly,
Nigga grizzly like the bear be wearly,
Nigga spend money like a bitch breath air,
U know the feelin when u on weell I'm their welcome to all money in grab a chair
VERSE 1
The time has come make way for the Italian CEO
Don’t worry where I’m from it’s what I’ve done bro
Believed in the movement, that what I’ve done yo
I have an army of made men like Lucky Luciano
Speaking business suites we go as far back as capono
And I don’t need support I got all my pizannos
Even got respect from the Gods down in Rome
A sleeping giant has awakened we gone
Playas talking it meanwhile making your girl on
The rap Sinatra bringing the rat pack back to your home
And now were making denero the industry we own
And from Sicily to NYC we will be none
CHORUS
We pimpin
We Ballin
We Hustlin
We Lovin it
VERSE 2
Cruisin Malibu girl by my side with a mona lisa smile
To busy making that money I gotta be spending it once and a while
Versace, Gucci, Armani just name any style
Ferrari, Masseratti, Diablo pick any dial
London, LA, Milan got a girl by the aisle
Swiss, America, Japan, a few hundred piles
Just lounging sipping red wine as my nails get filed
The Life of a Casanova King
CHORUS
We pimpin (repeat)
We Ballin ( repeat)
We Hustlin ( repeat)
We Lovin it
VERSE 3
Alls I wanna do is bring some flavour to the game
Tired of the same ol thing its getting kinda lame
Holla if you support the colors from where you came
The Green, the white and red my everything, my flame
Start of a new era, the thrown I will claim
Been working hard for years lord knows im insane
And im never gonna quit till the world knows my name
Were marching in the game leading the phenomenon
Ya wanna catch how im living its on Babylon
In my mansion playing Sopranos on my Trinitron
And all my capos be steadily flowing like exon
I have like 4 or 5 you know where there lips be on
CHORUS
We pimpin (repeat)
We Ballin ( repeat)
We Hustlin ( repeat)
You got an outfit fit for a casket
And someone wants to put it to use
Cause don’t care anything for anyone
The whole story’s not about you
Try these eyes for size take another view
As the wrecking ball rushes towards you
Stuck behind the fence is where you stare
But you don’t know what’s at stake, you were taught not to care
You got an outfit fit for a casket
And someone wants to put it to use
Cause don’t care anything for anyone
The whole story’s not about you
You are just concerned with your fucking self
The unpleasant life of others generates your wealth
Gun to your head, too late for “lesson learned”
The harm’s been done and this man is not concerned
Got an outfit...
Trapped in yourself
Trapped in yourself
Trapped in yourself
Oh he’ll set you free