In cursul noptii trecute compania Apple a publicat un comunicat de presa prin care anunta promovarea lui Craig Federighi in functia de vicepresedinte senior al diviziei de software engineering pentru Mac, si promovarea lui Dan Riccio in functia de vicepresedinte senior a diviziei de hardware engineering. Pe Craig Federighi l-am vazut la WWDC 2012 urcand pe scena si prezentand OS X Mountain Lion, insa pe Dan Riccio deocamdata nu l-am vazut intr-o conferinta, dar exista posibilitatea sa il vedem la prezentarea iPhone 5.
Bob Mansfield, omul care a contribuit la dezvoltarea hardware-ului din iDevice-urile ultimelor ani, va renunta la pensionare si va continua sa lucreze la Apple, insa va raspunde doar in fata lui Tim Cook. Nu se stie daca el isi va pastra titlul de vicepresedinte senior din moment ce Dan Riccio are acelasi titlu, insa anuntul este imbucurator.
Craig Federighi, Apple’s Vice President of Mac Software Engineering & Dan Riccio, Apple’s Vice President of Hardware Engineering Join Apple’s Executive Team as Senior Vice Presidents
CUPERTINO, California—August 27, 2012—Apple® today announced that Craig Federighi, Apple’s vice president of Mac Software Engineering, and Dan Riccio, Apple’s vice president of Hardware Engineering, have been promoted to senior vice presidents. Federighi and Riccio will report to Apple CEO Tim Cook and serve on Apple’s executive management team.
Apple also announced that Bob Mansfield, who announced his retirement in June, will remain at Apple. Mansfield will work on future products, reporting to Tim Cook.
As senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering, Federighi will continue to be responsible for the development of Mac OS® X and Apple’s common operating system engineering teams. Federighi worked at NeXT, followed by Apple, and then spent a decade at Ariba where he held several roles including vice president of Internet Services and chief technology officer. He returned to Apple in 2009 to lead Mac OS X engineering. Federighi holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Riccio, as senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will lead the Mac®, iPhone®, iPad® and iPod® engineering teams. He has been instrumental in all of Apple’s iPad products since the first generation iPad. Riccio joined Apple in 1998 as vice president of Product Design and has been a key contributor to most of Apple’s hardware over his career. Dan earned a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1986.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
