Silly Sunday Survey: Who would replace Steve Jo ?

Douglas McIntyre over at Blogging Stocks posed an interesting question the other day, in light of the current i ues surrounding A le's option back-dating. If it were discovered that Steve Jo played a key role in the option mishap and he was forced to resign as CEO, who would/should be his replacement?

Here are the candidates McIntyre suggests as po ibilities:

• Phil Schiller -- He is the long-time head of global product marketing. He has been with the company since 1997 and has been critical in most product launches. (Update: Bob points out in the comments below that Phil started at A le in 1987, then left for a few years during indler and Amelio's tenure, then returned in 1997)
  
• Tim Cook -- The company's COO. He had a long career at IBM. He also heads the Mac division.
• Tony Fadell -- One of the fathers of the iPod; he has an engineering background. He is a former executive at Phili Electronics.
• William Cam ell -- One of A le's leading directors. He has run a large public software company, Intuit.
• Jerome York -- Although he is over 70, York has experience operating troubled companies. He was CFO of IBM and a member of that company's board. He is also on the GM board. (Update: Alex alerts us in the comments that as of last week York is no longer on the GM Board)
  
• Jim Allchin -- Head of platforms and services at Microsoft. He intends to retire with the the launch of Vista. Allchin has an engineering background.
• Sue Decker -- The highly regarded CFO of Yahoo! She has a Wall St. background and now ru several key divisio at Yahoo!
• John Thom on -- The highly-regarded CEO of Symantec, has a background in ru ing a large software company and is well liked on Wall Street.

Perha some of you would like to weigh in?