Apple Inc. A mid-October 2013 announcement revealed that Burberry executive Angela Ahrendts will commence as a senior vice president at Apple in mid-2014. Ahrendts oversaw Burberry's digital strategy for almost eight years and, during her tenure, sales increased to about US$3.2 billion and shares gained more than threefold. Alongside Google vice-president Vint Cerf and AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, Cook attended a closed-door summit held by President Obama on August 8, 2013, in regard to government surveillance and the Internet in the wake of the Edward Snowden NSA incident. On February 4, 2014, Cook met with Abdullah Gül, the President of Turkey, in
Angela Strank a geologist "by accident". In 2010, she won the UK First Women's Award in Science and Technology. an award sponsored by the UK Government (CBI) in recognition of pioneering UK women in business and industry. In the 2017 Birthday Honours, Strank was appointed DBE. In the same year she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. Angela Strank Dame Angela Rosemary Emily Strank (born October 1952) is head of downstream technology and chief scientist of BP, responsible for technology across all the refining, petrochemicals,