Apple Senior Director of Worldwide Product Marketing Bob Borchers has left the company to join Opus Capital as a general partner.  Borchers worked at Apple since 2004.  Borchers was in charge of marketing for the iPod and iPhone.  He appeared in several videos discussing the products.

Borchers said that working at Apple was amazing, but Opus offered him the chance to make investments in mobile technologies.  Opus has $1 billion in capital.  Borchers will be part of the latest fund that Opus raised which was around $280 million.

[via WSJ]

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