William Campbell (business executive)

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William "Bill" V. Campbell is the current Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Intuit Inc., and a board director at Apple, Inc. He formerly worked for Apple Inc. (as VP of Marketing), Claris (as CEO), and GO Corporation (as CEO).[1]

Son of a local school official, Campbell was born and raised in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. He attended Columbia University where he played football under coach Buff Donelli from 1959 to 1961. His senior year he was named to the All-Ivy Team. He graduated in 1962 with a bachelor in economics. He also obtained a master's degree from Columbia.[2] He was head coach of Columbia's football team, the Columbia Lions from 1974 to 1979. Prior to this he was an assistant at Boston College for six years. He met his wife, the former Roberta Spagnola, while she was the assistant dean in charge of Columbia's undergraduate dormitories.

He joined J. Walter Thompson, the advertising agency, then Kodak where he rose to run Kodak's European film business. Hired by John Sculley he became Apple's VP of Marketing, then ran Apple's Claris software division. When Sculley refused to spin Claris off into an independent company, Campbell and much of the Claris leadership left. However in 1997, upon the return of Steve Jobs to Apple, Campbell has sat as a corporate director on the board.

Campbell became CEO of GO Corporation, a startup pioneering a tablet computer operating system. After successfully selling GO to AT&T in 1993, Campbell was CEO of Intuit from 1994 to 1998.

Campbell is an adviser to a number of technology companies, and was elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Columbia in 2005.

[edit] Coaching record

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Rank#
Columbia Lions (Ivy League) (1974–1979)
1974 Columbia 1-8 0-7 8th
1975 Columbia 2-7 2-5 6th-t
1976 Columbia 3-6 2-5 5th-t
1977 Columbia 2-7 1-6 7th-t
1978 Columbia 3-5-1 2-4-1 5th-t
1979 Columbia 1-8 1-6 7th
Columbia: 12-41-1 8-33-1
Total: 12-41-1
      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title
Indicates BCS bowl game. #Rankings from final Coaches' Poll.

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