William "Bill" V. Campbell is the current Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Intuit Inc. He formerly worked for Apple Inc. (as VP of Marketing), Claris (as CEO), and GO Corporation (as CEO).
Son of a local school official, Campbell was born and raised in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. He attended Columbia University and starred in football. He was head coach of Columbia's football team from 1974 to 1979. He left after the 1978 sea...
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William "Bill" V. Campbell is the current Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Intuit Inc. He formerly worked for Apple Inc. (as VP of Marketing), Claris (as CEO), and GO Corporation (as CEO).
Son of a local school official, Campbell was born and raised in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. He attended Columbia University and starred in football. He was head coach of Columbia's football team from 1974 to 1979. He left after the 1978 season, which featured a disastrous 69-0 defeat at the hand of Rutgers, which ended what had been one of college football's oldest rivalries. 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...
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