Apple only rarely updates its corporate leadership page, but when it does, it's significant for who it does — and does not — add, and what this tells us about the firm's plans.
Apple is likely to be radically updating its Apple Leadership page over the next few years as Tim Cook and others retire. But in general, changes to the page are rare — and when they are made, they can tell a story about the company.
The latest update is that the company has now added three new people, and revised another. The new entries are:
- Molly Anderson - Vice President Industrial Design
- Jennifer Newstead - Senior Vice President and General Counsel
- Steve Lemay - Vice President Human Interface Design
The revision is to Eddy Cue, who was previously senior vice president of services. His role is now SVP of services and health, following the retirement of Jeff Williams.
Cue seems to have the most active spot on that leadership page, though. He's the only one to get a revised profile picture this time, and until July 2021, his role was "internet software and services."
Leadership by design
More telling about the internal politics of Apple, though, could be the elevation of two designers to the leadership pages. Significantly, a search through the history of the page shows that previous human interface design chief Alan Dye did not get a spot on the leaderboard.
Perhaps that contributed to him being tempted away from Apple by Meta. Especially since Jony Ive was on the page when he was Chief Design Officer, until he left in 2019.
Ive's successor, Evans Hankey, doesn't appear to gained a spot on the leadership page before she left in 2022.
But now two senior designers are on the page. Steve Lemay has taken Dye's title of vice president of human interface design, and Molly Anderson's role of vice president industrial design has got her on the page too.
Anderson has been behind the design of the Apple Pencil Pro and more recently has begun giving interviews about the MacBook Neo.
Steve Lemay was also involved with the Apple Pencil Pro. More significantly, he's said to be a popular choice among Apple engineers to take over from Alan Dye.
It's of course good to see Apple recognizing designers, since the company has always prided itself on exceptional design work.
Molly Anderson's profile has also been rising as she's been interviewed about her work on the new MacBook Neo
But if that side of Apple has always been important, these days it seems the legal side is significant too. Which is why the last of the new changes to the leadership page is the addition of Jennifer Newstead as senior vice president and general counsel
Newstead was announced to be taking over as general counsel in 2025, as her predecessor Kate Adams retired.
Adams retired at around the same time as Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives. When that was announced in January 2026, Apple removed her from the leadership page, seemingly before she was even out of the door.
There are going to be further such removals and additions in the next few years. The most marked will be the eventual removal of Tim Cook after he retires — or moves to the board of governors, but plenty more Apple executives are shortly to retire.
