Timothy Donald Cook was born on the 1st of November 1960 in Robertsdale, Alabama. Cook was born the son of a worker at a shipyard and a housewife. He obtained his B.S. degree in technical business administration from Auburn University in 1982, and his MBA from 1988 at Fuqua School of Business, part of Duke University.
For 12 years he worked as a director for IBM. After that, he was COO at Intelligent Electronics. Later he also worked as a vice president at Compaq credit. He was hired by Steve Jobs at Apple in 1998, where he became senior vice president for worldwide operations.
On October 30, 2014, he came out publicly that he was homosexual. His close friends already knew, but this was the first time he openly discussed this in public, although he never denied it either.
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