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Macsimum News: Apple’s senior director of worldwide product marketing for the iPhone leaves, joins Opus Capital
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MacDailyNews: Former Apple iPhone marketing director joins venture-capital firm Opus Capital
Apple’s senior director of worldwide product marketing for the iPhone leaves, joins Opus Capital
Macsimum News —
... Bob Borchers has left his post as Apple’s senior director of worldwide product marketing for the iPhone to join venture capital firm Opus Capital as a general partner, reports the Wall Street Journal. ...
News: iPhone marketing exec Borchers leaves Apple
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
Bob Borchers, Apple’s senior director of worldwide product marketing for the iPhone and the host of the company’s guided tour videos for the iPhone and iPhone 3G has left the company for venture capital firm Opus Capital, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the WSJ, Borchers had been with the company since 2004 working on products such as the iPod and iPhone, and said his time with the company was “amazing.” Borchers will be a general partner with Opus, focusing on mobile technologies.
Former Apple iPhone marketing director joins venture-capital firm Opus Capital
MacDailyNews —
... as the iPod and iPhone and had even appeared in some company videos about the iPhone. A former executive at Nokia and Nike, he said working at Apple was “amazing” but that the venture capitalists at Opus offered him an opportunity to join and make investments in mobile technologies," Tam reports. "He said he intends to look at “the range of white spaces in the mobile world,” including areas like wireless and medicine and mobile marketing technologies.," Tam reports. Full article here .
iPhone marketing head goes to VC firm; iTunes breaks records after Jackson death
AppleInsider —
... videos, the company's senior director of worldwide iPhone product marketing Bob Borchers has left his employer to join the venture capital group Opus Capital as one of its partners. The executive had been at Apple since 2004 and helped direct Apple's public image for the iPhone and iPod at alternate points in his five-year tenure. However, despite considering Apple an "amazing" place to work, he felt it time to leave as there were too many irresistable "white spaces" in the cellular business that could use investment, such as marketing and medicine. It's not known who will ...
iPhone Bob leaves Apple to pursue venture capital investing
Infinite Loop —
... Bob Borchers, who most recently served as senior director of worldwide product marketing for the iPhone at Apple, has left to company to join the world of venture capital. Borchers has joined Opus Capital as a general partner, telling the Wall Street Journal he just couldn't pass on the opportunity. ...
A Farewell to iPhone Bob
The iPhone Blog —
Some of you on the TiPb Forums have shown some concern over Nelson and the iPhone 3GS tour video. Our question is — what ever happened to iPhone Bob?
Bob Borchers, if you weren’t familiar with the name, starred in the original iPhone and iPhone 3G tour videos on the Apple website.
Well it pains me to say this but according to the WSJ Bob has left Apple to join venture-capital firm, Opus Capital.
Bob, a former executive at Nokia, Nike, and Apple (since 2004, working on the iPod and iPhone) said he enjoyed his ...
Apple executive Borchers departs company
Macworld —
... , and was one of the more visible of the company employees, who are usually shrouded in, well, shrouds of secrecy . But Bob, Bob is no more. No fear: he hasn’t shuffled his way off this mortal coil, but he has departed Apple, where he’d served as senior director of worldwide iPhone product marketing for the last couple years. According to the ...
