The Register®

Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/09/10/gap_grants_jobs_job/

Gap grants Jobs job

Apple CEO and Gap CEO now both on each others' boards

By Tony Smith

Posted in Business, 10th September 1999 10:44 GMT

Back in May, Apple appointed the president and CEO of trendy clothing company Gap, Millard 'Mikey' Drexler, to its board of directors (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/4597.html). Now Gap has returned the favour and found a seat on its own board for Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Curiously, Gap's release on the appointment stresses Jobs' role at Pixar above his position at Apple. This dispite the canny similarity between Apple's products and Gap's: the soon-to-ship iBook consumer notebook comes in blue and orange colour schemes -- both Gap's autumn colours (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/6277.html). ®