Senior Vice PresidentGovernment Affairs

Katherine Adams is Apple's senior vice president ofGovernmentAffairs, reporting to CEO Tim Cook.Kate serves on the company'sexecutive team andleads the government affairs team, whichengageswith legislators and policymakers around the worldon topicsvital to Apple's usersKate previously served as Apple's general counseland senior vicepresident of Legal and GlobalSecurity. She joined Apple fromHoneywell in 2017,where she worked for 14 years, most recentlyassenior vice president and general counsel. AtHoneywell, Kate wasin charge of the organization'sglobal legal strategy across more than100 countriesz