John Ternus, senior vice chairman of {hardware} engineering at Apple Inc., throughout an Apple occasion in New York, US, on Wednesday, March 4, 2026.
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Apple stated on Monday that John Ternus is succeeding Tim Cook as CEO, with Cook assuming the position of govt chairman on Sept. 1.
Ternus, a senior vice chairman of {hardware} engineering, will be a part of Apple’s board of administrators when he turns into chief. Apple’s non-executive chairman Arthur Levinson will become the iPhone-maker’s lead impartial director on that date.
“Cook will continue in his role as CEO through the summer as he works closely with Ternus on a smooth transition,” Apple stated in a press launch.
It’s the primary CEO transition for Apple since Cook, now 65, succeeded Steve Jobs on the helm in 2011, shortly earlier than Jobs’ demise. Ternus will become Apple’s eighth CEO.
“It has been the greatest privilege of my life to be the CEO of Apple and to have been trusted to lead such an extraordinary company,” Cook stated in an announcement. “I love Apple with all of my being, and I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with a team of such ingenious, innovative, creative, and deeply caring people who have been unwavering in their dedication to enriching the lives of our customers and creating the best products and services in the world.”
Apple’s market cap elevated by roughly 24-fold on Cook’s watch, closing on Monday at $4 trillion.
During his nearly 15-year tenure, Cook oversaw Apple’s bounce into wearable know-how, with the rollout of the Apple Watch, AirPods and the digital actuality headset Vision Pro, which has struggled to discover market adoption since its launch in 2024.
Ternus, who’s about 15 years youthful than Cook, has been Apple’s {hardware} boss and has labored at Apple for about half his life, becoming a member of simply 4 years after he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a level in mechanical engineering. He’s been extensively seen as subsequent in line, with current profiles in The New York Times and Bloomberg. His portfolio has included oversight of the {hardware} engineering groups behind the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods and Vision Pro.
Experts informed CNBC a few of Apple CEO’s greatest challenges contain an more and more complicated provide chain due to geopolitical tensions, the Trump administration’s tariffs and a memory crunch tied to hovering demand for AI chips. Popal referred to as the reminiscence challenge “bigger than the pandemic and tariffs.”
Dipanjan Chatterjee, an analyst at Forrester, stated if the Cook period “has been about operational excellence and expansion,” the subsequent decade “will be turbulent for Apple because there’s been so much change in how consumers interact with technology, particularly with generative AI.”
Ben Bajarin stated Ternus would is “definitely more engineer-operator type CEOs and I think the market is happy about what they could bring back to product leadership.”
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