Craig Federighi and Dan Riccio Promoted to Senior Vice Presidents

With a press release, Apple today announced that Craig Federighi, Vice President of Mac Software Engineering, and Dan Riccio, Vice President of Hardware Engineering, have joined the executive team of the company as Senior Vice Presidents. Both will report directly to CEO Tim Cook.

As senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering, Federighi will continue to be responsible for the development of Mac OS X and Apple’s common operating system engineering teams. Federighi worked at NeXT, followed by Apple, and then spent a decade at Ariba where he held several roles including vice president of Internet Services and chief technology officer. He returned to Apple in 2009 to lead Mac OS X engineering. Federighi holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Riccio, as senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will lead the Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod engineering teams. He has been instrumental in all of Apple’s iPad products since the first generation iPad. Riccio joined Apple in 1998 as vice president of Product Design and has been a key contributor to most of Apple’s hardware over his career. Dan earned a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1986.

In the same press release, Apple has also announced that Bob Mansfield, who announced his retirement in June, will remain at Apple to “work on future products”, also reporting to Tim Cook.

In the past two years, Craig Federighi joined other members of Apple’s executive team on stage for product announcements and demoes. In June, Federighi appeared at Apple’s WWDC keynote in San Francisco to demonstrate the latest features of OS X Mountain Lion, released a month later.

Apple’s Leadership webpage has already been updated with the new profiles of SVPs Federighi and Riccio.