Apple to focus hardware team on five areas under Johny Srouji
Apple’s newly combined hardware engineering and hardware technologies division will be organised across five key areas, its new leader told staffers on Monday.
Johny Srouji, who was named chief hardware officer at the same time John Ternus was promoted to chief executive officer, made the disclosure in an email to Apple employees. He said the team will be organised into hardware engineering, silicon, advanced technologies, platform architecture and project management divisions.
The change aims to simplify the structure of his organisation, which will add thousands of employees and responsibility over the engineering of the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and other products.
Under Srouji, Apple’s hardware engineering unit will now be run by Tom Marieb, an Intel Corp. veteran who joined Apple in 2019 to run a team responsible for the quality and hardware integrity of products.
The silicon team will be overseen by longtime executive Sri Santhanam; platform architecture will be led by Tim Millet; advanced technologies will be overseen by Zongjian Chen; and Donny Nordhues will run program management.
Srouji also touched on Ternus’ appointment and CEO Tim Cook’s departure in his email, proclaiming that Cook “made the very best choice for who should succeed him.”
“Those of us who have had the chance to work closely with John know how thoughtful and capable he is,” Srouji said.
The decision to combine the hardware engineering and hardware technologies teams takes Apple back to a structure it used over a decade ago. The group was one team under former hardware chief Bob Mansfield but was split up upon his first retirement in 2012. That move eventually gave way to Ternus and Srouji rising within Apple.
The new management structure elevates Srouji, who told Cook last year that he was considering leaving for another role, to the clear top of the management chain under Ternus. The change helps cement hardware and engineering as the company’s central priorities.
