Overview
- Bloomberg reported Monday that John Ternus has recruited Laura Legros out of retirement to join his management team as a vice president who will report directly to him.
- Legros previously ran product delivery and cross‑team engineering coordination at Apple and retired in 2022, and she will be hired to work cross‑functionally across hardware groups.
- Several reports say Apple is moving to consolidate hardware engineering and technologies under Johny Srouji in a reported Chief Hardware Officer role, though formal titles and org charts have not been published.
- Ternus has spent months shadowing Tim Cook, leading executive meetings and taking part in roadmap reviews as he prepares to become CEO on September 1.
- Observers say these early hires are meant to stabilize product schedules and reduce silos as Ternus faces further succession work with multiple senior leaders nearing retirement.