Apple® today announced that Bob Mansfield, Apple’s senior vice president
of Hardware Engineering, will retire and the role will be transitioned
to Dan Riccio, Apple’s vice president of iPad Hardware Engineering, over
several months. The entire hardware engineering team will continue to
report to Mansfield until his departure.
“Bob has been an instrumental part of our executive team, leading the
hardware engineering organization and overseeing the team that has
delivered dozens of breakthrough products over the years,” said Tim
Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We are very sad to have him leave and hope he enjoys
every day of his retirement.”
“Dan has been one of Bob’s key lieutenants for a very long time and is
very well respected within Apple and by the industry,” added Cook. “Our
hardware engineering team is the best engineering team on earth and will
not miss a beat during the transition.”
As senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, Mansfield has led Mac®
hardware engineering since 2005, iPhone® and iPod® hardware engineering
since 2010, and iPad® hardware engineering since its inception.
Mansfield joined Apple in 1999 when Apple acquired Raycer Graphics,
where he was vice president of Engineering. Mansfield earned a BSEE
degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1982.
Riccio currently serves as vice president of iPad Hardware Engineering
and 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.
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