Apple's new diversity exec hails from Bank of America
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Cynthia Bowman is Apple's latest Vice President of Inclusion and Diversity after a 17-year career at Bank of America.
Apple has seen some changes around how it manages diversity and inclusion in recent years. The top executive job Chief People Officer was introduced in 2023 after splitting the role away from Deirdre O'Brien, who now focuses solely on retail.
The reporting executive to the Chief People Officer is the Vice President of Inclusion and Diversity. According to a report from Bloomberg, Cynthia Bowman has stepped into the role.
"We are excited that Cynthia Bowman will serve as Apple's next Vice President of Inclusion and Diversity," an Apple spokesperson said in a statement. "Cynthia is an accomplished leader in her field and is deeply committed to the work we're doing to advance inclusion and diversity at Apple."
Bowman served as chief diversity, inclusion, and social responsibility officer during her tenure at Bank of America. Her career there spanned 17 years before leaving earlier in 2024.
Apple's push for diversity and inclusion is one of the company's core tenants. It has a dedicated website to showcase the effort, though it hasn't been updated with new data since 2022.
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Now that the George Floyd hysteria has died down, DEI is waning, and under legal attack in many circles. Many DEI offices and positions are being reduced or even eliminated. DEI is an ideological, political viewpoint that is often just a euphemism for discrimination against whites.
DEI positions are political tool to curtail the behavior of the masses and set one against the other! Their jobs entail Rheems of anti white rhetoric and then training on how not to be white! People who work these jobs produce nothing and in fact most often contribute to the same political elites that established this ridiculous position. It’s the closest thing to a communist party political officer the US has ever had! It’s the Race Czar! Don’t believe me? Then let’s post some of the rhetoric that they email their employees? Let’s put up the stuff from IBM, and Google, Facebook and Apple! Any takers?
DEI is a cancer in an organization. Shut that crap down
Apple needs to stay away from this DEI nonsense and start employing people on merit, because as far as innovation and marketing is concerned, they are falling way down on the standards set by Steve Jobs!!!