John Giannandrea is a British software engineer and businessman.

Career

He co-founded Metaweb, led

Google Google LLC (, ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial ...

Search and

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, was co-founder and CTO of the speech recognition company Tellme Networks, Chief Technologist of the web browser group at Netscape, senior engineer at General Magic. He subsequently worked at

, rising to become their chief of search and artificial intelligence. In 2018 he left Google to join Apple Inc. He was appointed Senior Vice President of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Strategy at Apple, one of 16 executives reporting directly to the CEO Tim Cook. The department was rumored to have the most involvement with the (now cancelled) Apple electric car project. In March 2025, Giannandrea was reportedly ousted as the head of

Siri Siri ( , backronym: Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface) is a digital assistant purchased, developed, and popularized by Apple Inc., which is included in the iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, Apple TV, audioOS, and visionOS operating sys ...

development.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Giannandrea, John Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Computer programmers Scottish company founders Google employees Apple Inc. employees Apple Inc. executives Scottish expatriates in the United States Scottish people of Italian descent 20th-century Scottish businesspeople 21st-century Scottish businesspeople