John Ternus is an American business executive who has served as

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of hardware engineering since 2021, reporting to

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. Ternus leads the hardware engineering teams at Apple.

Education

Ternus received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering with a major in

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from the

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in 1997.

Career

Ternus joined Apple in 2001 as a member of the product design team. He became vice president of hardware engineering under Dan Riccio in 2013, in charge of

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and

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. In 2020, he was also put in charge of

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hardware, previously overseen by Riccio directly. He was promoted to the role of senior vice president of hardware engineering on January 25, 2021, replacing Riccio, and was put in charge of

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hardware in late 2022. ''Bloomberg News'' reported that Ternus was the "youngest member of Apple's executive team", and described him as "charismatic and well-liked". He has been widely reported by media to be a potential successor to

as the company's next chief executive. Since joining Apple, Ternus has presented new Mac and iPad hardware at WWDCs, revealing refreshes of the

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and

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, the new 2018

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s, the

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and the completely redesigned 2019

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. He has subsequently appeared as a regular presenter in Apple's events.

References

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