{"id":593,"date":"2019-09-13T22:51:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T22:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/finance\/2019\/09\/13\/disney-ceo-bob-iger-resigns-from-apples-board\/"},"modified":"2019-09-13T22:51:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T22:51:16","slug":"disney-ceo-bob-iger-resigns-from-apples-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/2019\/09\/13\/disney-ceo-bob-iger-resigns-from-apples-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney CEO Bob Iger resigns from Apple\u2019s board"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Walt Disney Co.\u2019s Chief Executive Robert Iger resigned from Apple Inc.\u2019s board of directors, the tech giant said on Friday, severing a yearslong connection between the two companies as they prepare to launch competing video-streaming services.<\/p>\n

He resigned on Tuesday, Apple
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\n \u00a0 said in a one-sentence filing to securities regulators.<\/p>\n

Iger, who has led Disney
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\n \u00a0 since 2005, joined Apple\u2019s board in 2012 and was serving as the nominating-committee chair and on the compensation committee. He had a close relationship with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, born out of the 2006 sale of Pixar Animation Studios to Disney. Jobs was Pixar\u2019s chairman.<\/p>\n

An expanded version of this story appears at WSJ.com.<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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