Apple has hired some surprising executives recently which not only show Tim Cook’s leadership style, but also his vision for Apple’s future.

Tim Cook, who will be filling in for Steve Jobs for Apple’s day to day operations over the next six months, is a veteran employee of large companies in the technology industry, and he has a good schooling career to back it up. During his early years, he “earned an M.B.A. from Duke University, where he was a Fuqua Scholar, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Auburn University.” He then started off his career at IBM, where he eventually became the lead of the manufacturing and distribution functions. Soon, he found himself as vice president of Corporate Materials for Compaq. Not too long after that in March 1998, Cook first took his position at Apple as the Chief Operating Officer, where he was responsible for the company’s worldwide sales and operations.

A man by the name of Doug Field, who was once the CTO over at Segway, has thrown in the towel and moved his engineering and design talents over to Apple as the new vice president of the design team. There is a quite long discussion about this over at the SegwayChat forums, and the more »

Apple had a great year last year. And the Apple Executives have decided that they deserve some sort of reward. Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer, usually receives a $600,000 a year salary. Not bad. However, all that seems like peanuts when he got a $600,000 bonus in addition to his regular salary, bringing his total more »