Dan Riccio

Dan Riccio is Apple's senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, reporting to CEO Tim Cook. Riccio leads the Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod engineering teams, which have produced numerous products.[1][2]

Dan Riccio
Born
Daniel J. Riccio
Alma materUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst (B.A.)
Mechanical engineering
OccupationSenior Vice president at Apple


Biography

Riccio holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Before Apple, Riccio worked at Compaq as Senior Manager of Mechanical Engineering, responsible for the mechanical design of consumer PC products. [3]

He joined Apple in 1998 as vice president of Product Design and in 2010 was named vice president of iPad Hardware Engineering. Since joining Apple, Riccio has been a key contributor to most of the company's hardware, including all iPad products.

Dan Riccio officially announced in 2019 the cancellation of AirPower.[4]


gollark: Ah yes, the "touch bar".
gollark: Hmm, well, that's something.
gollark: They won't let you upgrade the SSD/RAM generally and thus overcharge massively for them.
gollark: Apple devices are some of the most unrepairable ones.
gollark: Apple ended up putting in increasingly powerful "15W" CPUs and not upgrading cooling to cope.

References
  1. "Apple Leadership - Dan Riccio - Senior Vice President, Hardware Engineering". Apple Inc. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  2. "Craig Federighi, Apple's Vice President of Mac Software Engineering & Dan Riccio, Apple's Vice President of Hardware Engineering Join Apple's Executive Team as Senior Vice Presidents". Apple Press Release. 27 Aug 2012. Retrieved 28 Aug 2012.
  3. Smith, Dave (29 June 2012). "Who Is Dan Riccio? Apple Transitions Hardware Leadership Role From Bob Mansfield". International Business Times.
  4. "Apple cancels AirPower product, citing inability to meet its high standards for hardware". TechCrunch. 29 March 2019.
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