Johny Srouji Named to Executive Team; Phil Schiller Adds Ecosystem Responsibilities
Tor Myhren Joins Apple
CUPERTINO, California — December 17, 2015 — Apple® today announced that
Jeff Williams has been named chief operating officer and Johny Srouji is
joining Apple’s executive team as senior vice president for Hardware
Technologies. Phil Schiller, senior vice president of Worldwide
Marketing, will expand his role to include leadership of the
revolutionary App Store® across all Apple platforms. Apple also
announced that Tor Myhren will join Apple in the first calendar quarter
of 2016 as vice president of Marketing Communications, reporting to CEO
Tim Cook.
“We are fortunate to have incredible depth and breadth
of talent across Apple’s executive team. As we come to the end of the
year, we’re recognizing the contributions already being made by two key
executives,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Jeff is hands-down the best
operations executive I’ve ever worked with, and Johny’s team delivers
world-class silicon designs which enable new innovations in our products
year after year.”
Cook continued, “In addition, Phil is taking
on new responsibilities for advancing our ecosystem, led by the App
Store, which has grown from a single, groundbreaking iOS store into four
powerful platforms and an increasingly important part of our business.
And I’m incredibly happy to welcome Tor Myhren, who will bring his
creative talents to our advertising and marcom functions.”
Jeff
joined Apple in 1998 as head of worldwide procurement and in 2004 he was
named vice president of Operations. Since 2010 he has overseen Apple’s
entire supply chain, service and support, and the social responsibility
initiatives which protect more than one million workers worldwide. Jeff
played a key role in Apple’s entry into the mobile phone market with the
launch of iPhone®, and he continues to supervise development of Apple’s
first wearable product, Apple Watch®.
In nearly eight years at
Apple as vice president of Hardware Technologies, Johny Srouji has built
one of the world’s strongest and most innovative teams of silicon and
technology engineers, overseeing breakthrough custom silicon and
hardware technologies including batteries, application processors,
storage controllers, sensors silicon, display silicon and other chipsets
across Apple’s entire product line. Educated at Technion, Israel’s
Institute of Technology, Johny joined Apple in 2008 to lead development
of the A4, the first Apple-designed system on a chip.
With added
responsibility for the App Store, Phil Schiller will focus on strategies
to extend the ecosystem Apple customers have come to love when using
their iPhone, iPad®, Mac®, Apple Watch and Apple TV®. Phil now leads
nearly all developer-related functions at Apple, in addition to his
other marketing responsibilities including Worldwide Product Marketing,
international marketing, education and business marketing. More than 11
million developers around the world create apps for Apple’s four
software platforms — iOS, OS X®, watchOS™ and tvOS™ — as well as
compatible hardware and other accessories, and customers have downloaded
more than 100 billion apps across those platforms.
Tor Myhren
joins Apple from Grey Group, where he has served as chief creative
officer and president of Grey New York. Under his leadership, Grey was
named Adweek’s Global Agency of the Year for both 2013 and 2015. As vice
president of Marketing Communications at Apple, Tor will be responsible
for Apple’s advertising efforts and will lead an award-winning team
that spans a broad range of creative disciplines from video, motion
graphics and interactive web design to packaging and retail store
displays.
Tor will succeed Hiroki Asai, who earlier announced
plans to retire after 18 years in graphic design and marketing
communications roles at Apple.
Apple revolutionized personal
technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple
leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and
Apple TV. Apple’s four software platforms — iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS —
provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower
people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music,
Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s 100,000 employees are dedicated to making
the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we
found it.
Press Contacts: Kristin Huguet Apple khuguet@apple.com (408) 974-2414
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