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TimothyDonald Cook(born November 1,1960)is an American business executive who has beenthechief executive officerofApple Inc.since 2011. Cook previously served as thecompany\'schief operating officerunderits co-founderSteve Jobs, taking over asCEO after Jobs\'s death. Cookjoined Apple in March 1998 as asenior vice presidentfor worldwide operations, and thenserved as theexecutive vice presidentforworldwide sales and operationsHe was made the chief executive on August24, 2011, prior to Jobs\' death in October of that year. During his tenure asthe chief executive, he has advocated for the political reformation ofinternational and domestic surveillance,cybersecurity, American manufacturing, andenvironmental preservation.Since 2011 when he took over Apple, to 2020, Cook doubled the company\'s revenueand profit, and the company\'smarket valueincreased from $348 billion to $1.9trillion. In 2014, Cook became the first chief executive of aFortune500company topublicly come out as gay. Cook also serves on the boards of directors ofNike, Inc. and theNational FootballFoundation, and is a trustee ofDuke University. Outside of Apple, Cook engages inphilanthropy, and in March 2015, he said he planned to donate his fortunetocharity. Cook was borninMobile, Alabama, UnitedStates.He was baptized in aBaptistchurch]and grew up in nearbyRobertsdale. His father,Donald, was ashipyardworker, and his mother,Geraldine, worked at a pharmacy. Cook graduated fromRobertsdale High Schoolin 1978. He earned aBachelor of Scienceinindustrial engineeringfromAuburn Universityin 1982,and hisMaster of BusinessAdministration(MBA) fromDuke University\'sFuqua School of Businessin1988. After graduating from Auburn University, Cook spent 12 years inIBM\'spersonal computer business, ultimately serving as the director of NorthAmerican fulfillment.During this time, Cook also earned his MBA from DukeUniversity, becoming a Fuqua Scholar in 1988.Later, he served asthechief operating officerofthe computer reseller division of Intelligent Electronics. In 1997, he becamethe vice president for corporate materials atCompaqfor six months, but left the position after beinghired by Steve Jobs. In 1998,Steve Jobsasked Cook to join Apple. In acommencement speechatAuburn University, Cook said he decided to join Apple aftermeeting Jobs: Any purely rational consideration of cost and benefits lined upin Compaq\'s favor, and the people who knew me best advised me to stay atCompaq... On that day in early 1998, I listened to my intuition, not the leftside of my brain or for that matter even the people who knew me best... no morethan five minutes into my initial interview with Steve, I wanted to throwcaution and logic to the wind and join Apple. My intuition already knew thatjoining Apple was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work for the creativegenius and to be on the executive team that could resurrect a great Americancompany. His first position was senior vicepresident for worldwide operations.Cook closed factories and warehouses,and replaced them with contract manufacturers; this resulted in a reduction ofthe company\'s inventory from months to days. Predicting its importance, hisgroup had invested in long-term deals such as advance investment inflash memorysince2005. This guaranteed a stable supply of what became theiPod Nano,theniPhoneandiPad. Competitors atHewlett-Packarddescribedtheir cancelledHP TouchPadtablet computer and later said that it was madefrom \"cast-off, reject iPad parts\".Cook\'s actions wererecognized for keeping costs under control, and combined with the rest of thecompany, generated huge profits.In January 2007, Cook was promoted to lead operationsand served as chiefexecutive in 2009, while Jobs was away on a leave of absence for health-relatedissues. In January 2011, Apple\'s board of directors approved a third medicalleave of absence requested by Jobs. During that time, Cook was responsible formost of Apple\'s day-to-day operations, while Jobs made most major decisions. AfterJobs resigned as CEO and became chairman of the board, Cook was named the newchief executive officer of Apple Inc. on August 24, 2011.Six weeks later,on October 5, 2011, Jobs died due to complications frompancreatic cancer. Forbescontributor RobinFerracone wrote in September 2011: \"Jobs and Cook proceeded to forge astrong partnership, and rescued the company from its death spiral, which tookit from $11 billion in revenue in 1995 down to less than $6 billion in 1998 ...Under their leadership, the company went from its nadir to a remarkable $100billion today\". In April 2012,Timeincluded Cook on its annual \"100 MostInfluential People in the World\" list. On October 29, 2012,Cook made major changes to the company\'s executive team.Scott Forstallresigned as senior vice president ofiOS,and became an advisor to Cook until he eventually departed from the company in2013.John Browett, who wassenior VP of retail, was dismissed six months after he commenced at Apple, whenhe received 100,000 shares worth US$60 million.Forstall\'s duties weredivided among four other Apple executives: design SVPJony Iveassumed leadership of Apple\'s human interfaceteam;Craig Federighibecamethe new head of iOS software engineering; services chiefEddy Cuebecame responsible for Maps and Siri; andBob Mansfield, previously SVP of hardware engineering, becamethe head of a new technology group. Cook made the executive changes after thethird quarter of thefiscal year, when revenuesand profits grew less than predicted. One commentator said that Forstall wasforced to step down, as Cook \"decided to lance the boil as internalpolitics and dissent reached a key pitch\". Since becoming CEO, Cookfocused upon building a harmonious culture that meant \"weeding out peoplewith disagreeable personalities—people Jobs tolerated and even held close, likeForstall\",although another journalist said, \"Apple\'s ability toinnovate came from tension and disagreement.\" On February 28, 2014, Cookmade headlines when he challenged shareholders to \"get out of thestock\" if they did not share the company\'s views on sustainability andclimate change.In May 2016, Cook traveled to China to meet withgovernment officials there after the closure of Apple\'s online iTunes Store andApple Books store by the Chinese government. In 2016 some analysts comparedCook to formerMicrosoftCEOSteve Ballmer, claiming that innovation had died down since hereplaced Jobs, similar to when Ballmer became Microsoft CEO in 2000.InDecember 2017, Cook was a speaker at theWorld Internet ConferenceinChina. Cook was appointed chairman of the advisory board forTsinghua University\'s economics schoolin October 2019for a three-year term. Rep.Tom Malinowski, Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,and several other lawmakers criticized Cook over Apple\'s decision to remove anapp used by pro-democracyprotesters in Hong Kongfromits App Store.They accused Apple ofcensorshipandco-signed a letter to Cook that read, \"Apple\'s decisions last week toaccommodate the Chinese government by taking down HKMaps is deeply concerning.We urge you in the strongest terms to reverse course, to demonstrate that Appleputs values above market access, and to stand with the brave men and womenfighting for basic rights and dignity in Hong Kong.\"Cook explainedin an internal letter why the company removed Hong Kong mapping app used byprotesters to coordinate movements. In August2021, Cook received an approximate $750m payout, selling more than five millionshares in Apple, after marking ten years in the job