Who is John Ternus, the incoming CEO of Apple? | CNN Business

Apple veteran John Ternus will take over the $4 trillion company as CEO come September 1. “Having spent almost my entire career at Apple, I have been lucky to have worked under Steve Jobs and to have had Tim Cook as my mentor,” he said in a press release announcing his new position Monday. Here’s what you need to know about Apple’s incoming CEO. Ternus knows Apple at its core: He is currently the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, according to Apple’s website. That means he led the hardware engineering behind Apple’s most recognizable products, such as the iPhone and Mac, as well as newer innovations like the Apple Vision Pro. He played a major role in new product lines for the Mac, AirPods and iPhone. His team was essential in developing the new MacBook Neo, Apple said in a press release, and the iPhone 17 lineup. Ternus has spent a quarter of a century at Apple. He joined the company’s product design team in 2001 and eventually became a vice president of hardware engineering in 2013. Apple promoted him to the executive team in 2021, when he became senior vice president of hardware engineering. He worked as a mechanical engineer at Virtual Res