Tim Cook will leave Apple’s management in September

Although Ternus was considered the favorite to succeed Cook, who will become executive chairman of the board of directors, This transfer was not expected to occur so soon.

Starting September 1st, Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directorsas reported by the company in a statement.

The company indicated that Cook’s transition to Ternus was unanimously approved by the board of directors.

“It has been The greatest privilege of my life to be CEO of Apple and to have been entrusted with the leadership of such an extraordinary company. “I love Apple with everything in me,” Cook, 65, wrote in the statement.

The businessman stressed that Ternus has “the mind of an engineer, the soul of an innovator and the heart to lead with honor”calling him a “visionary” whose contributions to Apple “are already too numerous to count.”

Ternus, 51 years old, joined Apple’s product design team in 2001 and became Vice President of Hardware Engineering in 2013.

In 2021, he was appointed Senior Vice President of this department.

According to the company, Apple’s next CEO played a “pivotal” role in the introduction of products like the iPad and AirPods, as well as across multiple generations of iPhone, Mac and Apple Watch products.

Specifically, Ternus’ work on Mac has contributed to this category “more powerful and popular globally than at any time in its 40-year history.”

During his tenure as Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, the company introduced the laptop MacBook Neo, as well as the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, the iPhone Air and the iPhone 17.

In addition, the American has led much of the company’s efforts in areas such as reliability and durability and has helped drive innovation in the design of materials and hardware, reducing the carbon footprint of its products, Apple said.

Before working at the Cupertino company, Ternus, degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, He worked as a mechanical engineer at Virtual Research Systems.

For his part, Cook joined the technology company in 1998 and became its CEO in 2011. replacing the late Steve Jobs.

During his career as CEO, he has overseen the market introduction of multiple products, including new categories of Apple Watch, AirPods o Apple Vision Pro, in addition to services such as iCloud, Apple Pay, Apple TV y Apple Music.

Under his leadership, The company has gone from having a capitalization of about 350,000 million dollars to one of 4 trillionnow being the third largest listed in the world.