All Things Digital is reporting that Allison Johnson, Apple vice president of worldwide marking communications, is leaving Apple to set up her own marketing company. Johnson has been a Vice President at Apple since 2005, and is expected to leave in the coming months. She worked at HP in 1999, and before that was a head of media relations at Netscape and then IBM.
Here’s a large quote from All Things Digital:
She’s a seasoned and respected executive who came to Apple from Hewlett-Packard, where she managed public relations during the brutal proxy battle over HP’s acquisition of Compaq Computer. A former co-worker there once described her as “prime minister” of HP.
At Apple, Johnson has managed global advertising for some of the company’s most revolutionary products and the iconic ads for them.[…]
I’d personally never heard of her, but apparently she’s a lady that knows what she’s doing, and she was good at it. At Apple Vice President, or anyone at Apple for that matter, is expected to work, and work hard. No one is a figurehead.
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