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After 15 years, Tim Cook will hand off the Apple CEO role to John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering. Starting on September 1, Ternus will lead one of the world’s most valuable companies.
Ternus has worked at Apple for nearly half of his life. Now 51 years old, he has been with the company for 25 years.
He joined Apple’s product design team in 2001 as only his second job out of college, after working at a small maker of virtual reality devices called Virtual Research Systems. By 2013, Ternus was a vice president of hardware engineering, and he was promoted to senior vice president in 2021.
Ternus, who is 15 years younger than Cook, has been viewed as one of the younger executives rumored as a possible successor. The article notes that Apple has had only two CEOs in this millennium, suggesting leadership continuity is important to the company.
Ternus reports to Cook, whom he considers a mentor, and leads all of hardware engineering at Apple. The article frames this as a major responsibility for a company known for hardware such as the iPhone and the MacBook.
In a 2024 commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania’s engineering school, Ternus reflected on lessons he said he learned at Apple. He said: “Always assume you’re as smart as anyone else in the room, but never assume that you know as much as they do.” He added that the mindset provides “the confidence you need to push forward” and “the humility to ask questions.”
The article says Ternus was involved in the production of the MacBook Neo, described as Apple’s new, more affordable laptop model. It states that the device lowers costs through tradeoffs in hardware design, including using an iPhone chip to power the laptop.
Ternus said: “We never want to ship junk. We want to ship great products that have that Apple experience, that Apple quality. To do that with the Neo required building something completely new from the ground up — leveraging both the technologies we’d been developing like Apple silicon, but also the kind of expertise that we’ve developed over many, many years of building Macs, and building phones, and building iPads, and all of these things.”
As CEO, the article says Ternus will need to steer Apple through its challenge to catch up in the AI race and determine what to do with the underlying technology behind the Vision Pro.
The article notes that Ternus was on the swimming team at Penn. For his senior project, he built a feeding arm that people with quadriplegia could control with head movements.
According to public records of political donations, Ternus donated $2,900 to Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in 2021.
Otherwise, the article says Ternus has maintained a relatively low profile.
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