Apple Faces Executive Turnover Across Key Roles

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Apple is seeing major leadership turnover as two senior executives — Lisa Jackson and Kate Adams — prepare to retire, with Meta’s former legal chief Jennifer Newstead joining as the new general counsel. The moves follow several other high-level departures and have intensified investor focus on Apple’s succession plans.

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00:03Apple announced two senior leaders will retire as part of a broader turnover among its top deputies.

00:08According to the Wall Street Journal, Lisa Jackson, who led sustainability and government

00:12affairs, will retire in January. General Counsel Kate Adams will retire late next year and will

00:17be succeeded in March by Jennifer Newstead, the former chief legal officer at Meta Platforms,

00:22who also worked at the State Department. The announcement follows Meta's hiring of

00:26longtime Apple designers Alan Dye and Billy Sorrentino. Apple has announced leadership

00:31changes affecting four of Tim Cook's top deputies in the past year, prompting investor attention on

00:36potential successors, even as Cook has not indicated that he's stepping down. Recent changes include

00:41the departures of COO Jeff Williams, AI chief John Gianandrea, and CFO Luca Maestri.

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