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> Apple filed the lawsuit in Santa Clara County Superior Court against Gerard Williams III, who left the company last year after more than nine years as chief a
by ricefield 7y ago
> Apple filed the lawsuit in Santa Clara County Superior Court against Gerard Williams III, who left the company last year after more than nine years as chief architect for the custom processors that power iPhones and iPads to start Nuvia Inc, which is designing chips for servers.
- outworlder 7y agoChief architect. AKA engineer.
- ricefield 7y agoHis LinkedIn literally says, "Senior Director": https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerard-williams-iii-27895aa/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerard-williams-iii-27895aa/ It's not like he was some kind of low-ranking IC engineer
- outworlder 7y agoWell, being a "senior director" (sounds like an oxymoron to me) would seem to apply.
- kelnos 7y agoDirector in this sense does not mean what it means in the definition for "duty of loyalty", which is talking about board members, not (even high-ranking) employees.
- gamblor956 7y agoWikipedia is good for a broad definition of the term "duty of loyalty" but in CA that duty extends to all employees (see e.g. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/sd-fi-eaton-26-story.html https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/sd-fi-eaton-26...).