Bill Campbell (business executive)

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Bill Campbell is the current Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Intuit Inc. He formerly worked for Apple Computer (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. After graduation he coached Columbia's football team to unremarkable seasons. 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 company, Campbell and much of the Claris leadership left. However in 1998, upon the return of Steve Jobs to Apple, Campbell has sat as a corporate director on the board.

Campbell became CEO of GO Corporation, an ill-fated startup pioneering a tablet computer operating system. After successfully selling GO to AT&T in 1993, Campbell was CEO of Intuit from 1994 to 1998.

Campbell is an advisor to a number of technology companies, including Google, and is on the boards of Intuit, Apple, and Columbia University.

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• Executive Profile at Intuit.