Members of the Apple board have held informal discussions about potential candidates to eventually succeed Steve Jobs, reports the WSJ. Jobs, aged 56, is still on medical leave while he continues to battle the effects of overcoming cancer of his pancreas that was first diagonised in 2004.
Since Steve Jobs went on medical leave this winter, some members of Apple Inc.’s board have discussed CEO succession with executive recruiters and at least one head of a high-profile technology company, according to people familiar with the matter.
The conversations weren’t explicitly aimed at recruiting a new chief executive and were more of an informal exploration of the company’s options, said these people. The directors don’t appear to have been acting on behalf of the full board, some of these people said.
Tim Cook, Apple COO, is currently standing in as CEO while Jobs has taken a step back but is still involved in strategic planning of the company. Steve Jobs made an appearance at both the iPad 2 launch and WWDC to introduce us to their latest tablet and iCloud / iOS 5.
