Dan Riccio and Craig Federighi appointed as Senior Vice Presidents

Aug 28, 2012 06:38 GMT  ·  By
Apple executive profiles (screenshot), Dan Riccio and Craig Federighi highlighted
   Apple executive profiles (screenshot), Dan Riccio and Craig Federighi highlighted

Apple has promoted Craig Federighi and Dan Riccio to the position of Senior Vice President. Federighi and Riccio will report directly to Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, and will serve on Apple’s executive management team beginning this week.

Apple this week issued a press release to announce that Craig Federighi is now its vice president of Mac Software Engineering, while Dan Riccio has been appointed as the company’s vice president of Hardware Engineering.

“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,” Apple said.

Federighi is an old asset of Apple’s, having previously worked at NeXT (a company founded by the late Steve Jobs himself), then at Apple, then at Ariba (for about a decade) where he worked in several tenures, including vice president of Internet Services and chief technology officer.

In 2009, he returned to Apple to head OS X engineering, Apple said.

The new Mac Software Engineering SVP 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, according to Apple.

As far as Dan Riccio is concerned, the new senior vice president of Hardware Engineering will lead the Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod engineering divisions.

According to the Cupertino, California-based computer giant, “[Riccio] 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 said.

The Mac maker also announced that Bob Mansfield, previously scheduled to leave Apple, would continue with his duties, “work[ing] on future products.”