Jeff Williams Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple's execs are not the best-paid

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 17th, 2013)

A report earlier this week from Businessweek claimed Apple has four of the five highest-paid employees among Standard & Poor's 500 companies. The figures cited in this report included both base salary and vested stock packages, which has some people, like Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Apple 2.0, ...

Apple employs four of America's top five paid executives

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 15th, 2013)

During a 1998 profile in Fortune, Steve Jobs stressed how true innovation requires hiring the right people. Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's ...

A look at Jeff Williams, Tim Cook's right-hand man

by Chris Rawson (Sep 13th, 2011)

Fortune has posted a brief profile of Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations. Describing him as "Tim Cook's Tim Cook," Fortune's piece notes that Williams joined Apple in 1998 as head of worldwide procurement and was responsible for a US$1.25 billion deal with flash memory ...

A look at Apple's "all-star" executives

by Dana Franklin (May 9th, 2011)

Tim Cook, Phil Schiller, Jony Ive, and Steve Jobs are big names at Apple. These top executives are known around the technology industry and around the world for their operational excellence, marketing know-how, design genius and powerful reality distortion fields. While these four men often get ...

New Apple VP to address product quality

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 22nd, 2010)

If you thought Apple wasn't serious about quality you haven't been paying much attention for the past decade. In addition to making better hardware every year (with the exception of iBook keyboards), Apple has now promoted Jeff Williams to Senior VP of Operations; he'll be working alongside Tim Cook ...