Disney CEO Bob Iger has resigned from Apple’s board of administrators, in keeping with a just-published SEC submitting.
Neither firm has given any purpose for the departure — the explanatory textual content of the SEC submitting is actually simply “On September 10, 2019, Bob Iger resigned from the Board of Directors of Apple Inc.” — however with Disney and Apple each prepping to launch their very own video streaming companies in November, it might be that there’s beginning to be an excessive amount of overlap. Given that the companies are referred to as “Disney+” and “Apple TV+” respectively, it’s simple to see the place issues may begin to get too muddled.
Iger initially joined Apple’s board in November of 2011.
Apple’s Board of Directors now has seven members: Chairman Arthur D. Levinson (CEO of Alphabet’s biotech R&D firm Calico), James A. Bell (the previous CFO of Boeing), Al Gore, Andrea Jung (CEO of Grameen America), Ronald Sugar (Former CEO Northtrop Grumman), Susan L. Wagner (Co-Founder of BlackRock), and Apple CEO Tim Cook.
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