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- Medhi Naitmazi
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Apple last night updated its website dedicated to company managers to add the profile of John Ternus, reflecting his new role as Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering in place of Dan Riccio.
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A New Head on Apple’s Leadership Page
In January, Apple announced that former vice president of hardware engineering Dan Riccio was moving to a new role to focus on an unspecified project, and that Ternus would take over. John Ternus now appears alongside other Apple Senior Vice Presidents, such as Jeff Williams, Johny Srouji, and Craig Federighi.
Riccio was taken off the page, and while Apple hasn’t said what he’s working on, Bloomberg recently said he’s focusing on Apple’s AR / VR headsets.
John Ternus originally joined Apple as a member of the product design team in 2001 and has been vice president of hardware engineering since 2013.
Here is an excerpt from his biography on the leadership page:
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John Ternus is Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, reporting to CEO Tim Cook. John leads all the hardware engineering, including the teams behind the iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, and more.
John joined Apple’s product design team in 2001 and has been Vice President of Hardware Engineering since 2013. Throughout his tenure at Apple, John oversaw hardware engineering work on a variety of breakthrough products, including every generation and model of iPad, the latest iPhone lineup and “AirPods”. He has been a key leader in the ongoing transition from Mac to Apple Silicon.
Before Apple, John worked as a mechanical engineer at Virtual Research Systems. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
Apple CEO “Tim Cook” said in January that Ternus’ “deep expertise and vast experience” would make him a “bold and visionary leader” of Apple’s hardware engineering teams.
When we know that he was working on virtual reality before arriving at Apple …
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