Apple COO Rumored To Be Top Pick for GM CEO Job
By Michelle Krebs January 4, 2010The speculation on who will become the next chief executive officer of General Motors has 
begun with the latest rumor putting Apple COO Tim Cook at the top of the list for the job.
Cook, who took the reins of Apple when CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave, is the first choice of GM's executive search firm Spencer Stuart for the top post at General Motors, an anonymous reader of The Business Insider's Silicon Valley Insider told the blog.
"We have no idea whether this is true or not, but it makes sense," wrote Senior Editor Nicholas Carlson, the December 31, 2009 post.
A GM spokesman said the automaker had no comment on the rumor.
"Tim would be a bold choice for GM and a clean break with the car company's past," wrote Carlson. "Cars are vastly different than gadgets, but the magic Apple has brought to consumer product design could be just what GM needs to turn itself around.
"Whether Tim would want the job is a different story (the answer is probably no)."
Cook led Apple "brilliantly" for six months this year as interim CEO during Jobs's medical leave. He's also clearly in line for the CEO slot when Jobs decides to relinquish it, Carlson noted.
Meantime, other buzz has Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell becoming GM's next CEO. Liddell was just named GM's CFO and vice chairman by GM Chairman and now interim CEO Ed Whitacre, former chairman of AT&T. -- Michelle Krebs, Senior Analyst and Editor at Large
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