John Ternus, Apple’s senior vp of {hardware} engineering, has been named the brand new CEO of Apple, the corporate introduced.
In a letter posted on the company’s website, present CEO Tim Prepare dinner wrote that he’ll depart his function in September and grow to be govt chairman. He described Ternus as “a superb engineer and thinker who has spent the previous 25 years constructing the Apple merchandise our customers love a lot, obsessive about each element, centered on each attainable method we are able to make one thing higher, bolder, extra lovely, and extra significant. He’s the proper individual for the job.”
Ternus has been at Apple for greater than 24 years, and has led the {hardware} engineering division since 2013. He was instrumental in the switch to Apple chips and oversaw {hardware} engineering on the corporate’s hottest merchandise, together with the iPhone, iPad, Macs, and AirPods—which has additionally made him an more and more massive presence at Apple’s keynote occasions. He’s the youngest prime govt on the firm, too. As Quick Firm noted in November:
Over the previous 5 years, he has grow to be a extra seen presence at Apple occasions, unveiling the iPhone Air in early 2025 and exhibiting off Apple’s first silicon chip, the M1, in 2020. His engineering background might assuage critics who’ve complained Apple has grow to be a much less revolutionary firm underneath Prepare dinner’s management (regardless of the tons of of merchandise launched throughout his tenure).
Ternus began his profession in tech at Digital Analysis Methods, engaged on VR headsets for 4 years earlier than becoming a member of Apple in 2001, which let him work on a number of merchandise that might show to be iconic for the corporate. By 2013, he was overseeing Mac and iPad growth and added the iPhone {hardware} to his listing of supervised merchandise in 2020.
As discussions over the corporate’s succession planning have swirled in latest months, Ternus’s identify has been close to the highest of most lists of potential CEOs. In September, Fast Company wrote that Cook, who took over as CEO after Steve Jobs retirement in 2011, has confronted criticism as a “bean counter” who has stifled a few of the artistic freedom that constructed the corporate. Ternus is seen as a possible return to the Jobs period, the place the corporate was run by a “product man.” However Prepare dinner’s tenure is without doubt one of the most profitable of a enterprise chief in fashionable historical past. Beneath his management, Apple grew in worth from round $300 billion to the $4 trillion firm it’s in the present day.
In his letter, Prepare dinner writes of the way forward for Apple: “This firm will attain such unimaginable heights underneath his management, and you’ll really feel his influence in each bit of enjoyment and discovery that grows out of the services to come back. I can’t wait so that you can get to know him like I do.”
