Craig Federighi and Dan Riccio Named Senior Executives, Bob Mansfield to Remain at Apple

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced that Craig Federighi and Dan Riccio will be joining the company's senior executive team, receiving promotions to the Senior Vice President level.

Craig Federighi (left) and Dan Riccio (right)​

Federighi succeeded Bertrand Serlet as head of Mac Software Engineering in early 2011, but was not elevated to the senior executive team at that time. Riccio is currently transitioning to lead Hardware Engineering as Bob Mansfield steps down.

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 has also announced that Mansfield will remain with the company rather than retiring as previously announced, staying on to "work on future products" and reporting directly to CEO Tim Cook.

Article Link: Craig Federighi and Dan Riccio Named Senior Executives, Bob Mansfield to Remain at Apple

 

[Sky Blue]

Hair Force One

 

[nerfjames]

someone tell craig....

the 80's just FaceTime'd, they want their hair back.

 

[ECUpirate44]

I wonder if Federighi's hand shakes when using Mountain Lion

 

[bushido]

lol at their fake hairweave

 

[Blackberryroid]

It must be really weird to retire and then take it back.

 

[chrmjenkins]

Riccio's degree is in mechanical engineering, so it seems highly unlikely Mansfield's and his day-to-day duties would have been the exact same. Honestly, sounds like Mansfield wanted out of overseeing so many people to have a more focused responsibility within the company, and Tim must have been eager to bow to the demand to keep him on.

 

[bad03xtreme]

It must be really weird to retire and then take it back.

Hell I would clean the toilets to earn that paycheck.

 

[nfl46]

I can't stop looking at their hair.

And he retired, then came back, lol. Awkward moment.

 

[Small White Car]

I'm not saying the 'Apple Television' is real. I'm just saying that if it IS real you'd put someone you already trusted in charge of it AND you wouldn't be able to announce that which would lead to weird nonsensical news stories like "Senior exec. leaves job but stays with company and reports to CEO."

Something like that.

 

[froby]

Kramer!

The dude on the right looks like Kramer from Seinfeld..........

 

[CGJay]

"Mansfield will work on future products, reporting to Tim Cook."



Wait a second...Dan Riccio...turtleneck!

 

[sahenschel]

the next one more thing

an apple hairdryer - the iHair

still in testing, as you can see.

 

[zin]

Damn, Craig's hair is slick.

 

[Vctr]

Hell I would clean the toilets to earn that paycheck.

I think anybody would, since cleaning toilets is pretty remedial.

 

[yeah]

Dan Riccio looks similar to "bill nye the science guy".

 

[ILikeTurtles]

lol at their fake hairweave

That's not very nice. Post your photo here and let us all critique your appearance.

 

[sahenschel]

iFeng4s

see attachment ...

 

[Rogifan]

Those are weird photos. But at least Jony Ive isn't the only one not smiling anymore.

 

[iSee]

Keeping Mansfield is very good.
I guess he wanted out of the day-to-day grind and Apple was able to find something... Maybe he'll be working on the crazy stuff that won't be coming out for 5 years (if ever) that you know they are working on!

 

[mertyz]

Great to hear that Bob will stay.

Doesn't Craig Federighi look like old Edward Cullen

 

[Deadeyeshark]

Hair today..

He looks like the "Just For Men" before guy.

Also, black turtlenecks appear to be in again!

 

[WatchTheThrone]

Maybe they're keeping Bob to work on that super secret Apple Tv Set!!

 

[macchiato2009]

Promotion is in the (h)air

 

[benmo99]

They look very... European.