"Apple is currently undergoing the most extensive executive overhaul in recent history, with a wave of senior leadership departures that marks the company's most significant management realignment since its visionary co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs died in 2011. The leadership exodus spans critical divisions from artificial intelligence to design, legal affairs, environmental policy, and operations, which will have major repercussions for Apple's direction for the foreseeable future."
"The scope of the turnover is unprecedented in the Tim Cook era. In July, Jeff Williams, Apple's COO who was long thought to succeed Cook as CEO, decided to retire after 27 years with the company. One month later, Apple's CFO Luca Maestri also decided to step back from his role. And the design division, which just lost Dye, also lost Billy Sorrentino, a senior design director, who left for Meta with Dye."
Apple is experiencing an unprecedented wave of senior executive departures across artificial intelligence, design, legal affairs, environmental policy, and operations, constituting its largest management realignment since 2011. Lisa Jackson and Kate Adams will retire in 2026 and next month respectively, joining other recent exits including AI chief John Giannandrea, design lead Alan Dye, COO Jeff Williams, and CFO Luca Maestri. Multiple design and AI leaders have moved to Meta, with Ruoming Pang taking about 100 engineers. The turnover has intensified succession discussions and will materially affect Apple's strategic direction and operational continuity.
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