Awards & Recognition
★Time 100 Most Influential People (2012, 2021)
★Yale Legend in Leadership Award (2024)
★Alabama Academy of Honor (highest state honor) (2014)
★GLSEN Champion Award (2019)
★Auburn University Lifetime Achievement Award (2014)
★IISE Captains of Industry Award (2021)
★Financial Times Person of the Year (2014)
★Fortune's World's 50 Greatest Leaders (2014-2016)
★National Academy of Engineering (2026)
★Newseum's Free Speech Award
★Southern Christian Leadership Conference Keeper of the Dream Award
Notable Facts
→CEO of Apple Inc since 2011, world's most valuable company
→First Fortune 500 CEO to publicly come out as gay (2014)
→Net worth estimated at $2.6 billion by Forbes
→Annual compensation $74.6 million (2024)
→Led Apple to become first company to reach $3 trillion market cap
→Serves on Nike board of directors since 2005
→Committed to donating entire fortune to charity
→Auburn University industrial engineering graduate
→Duke University MBA (Fuqua Scholar)
→Previously worked at IBM, Compaq before joining Apple in 1998