John Ternus takes over as CEO of Apple on September 1, and he's busy getting his executive team together. The latest addition is Laura Legros, retired VP of hardware engineering.
All eyes are on John Ternus as he prepares to replace Tim Cook as CEO of Apple. Very little is known about the enigmatic character beyond his accomplishments at Apple, but analysts are already looking for challenges he may face.
Every hire and leadership position is being scrutinized, and Bloomberg has learned the latest addition to team Ternus. Laura Legros is coming out of retirement to report directly to Ternus in a vice president role, though the name of her new position wasn't shared.
She was previously a vice president of hardware engineering and worked for Ternus. All that was shared of her position was a fairly ambiguous statement that she would work "cross-functionally with different parts of the company."
The only way to interpret that for now is to assume that she'll be helping ensure the separate hardware teams aren't too siloed in their operations. Johny Srouji is set to be the newly created Chief Hardware Officer, which means hardware engineering and hardware technologies are now under one leader.
While Legros will report directly to Ternus, it seems she's likely to be structurally under Srouji as some kind of VP in hardware. Basically, even with the new leadership structure, Legros is back as a VP of hardware engineering, even if that wasn't explicitly stated in the report.
For those keeping track, Legros was one of the executives that retired in 2022 and was included in Bloomberg's reporting about an executive exodus at Apple. No, not the current reportedly nightmare scenario, the previous one we were supposed to be concerned about.
Don't expect John Ternus to suddenly change the face of Apple overnight, if ever. Some minor things might pop up in the first few months, but it'll be hard to attribute any specific changes to Ternus or plans made under Cook for some time.
