Apple’s corporate structure has gone through several changes this year. Angela Ahrendts departed Apple back in February, with Deirdre O’Brien taking on a new SVP of Retail + People role. In June, it was announced that Jony Ive was departing Apple to form his own independent design company, with Jeff Williams taking on new design responsibilities.
Paul Meade, who led hardware development on Apple’s augmented reality headset, was promoted to vice president of hardware engineering
Jon Andrews is now a vice president of software engineering under Craig Federighi. Andrews works on Apple’s various operating systems
Gary Geaves is now vice president of acoustics. Previously, he oversaw development of certain aspects of Apple’s audio products including AirPods and HomePod
Kaiann Drance, who appeared onstage at Apple’s iPhone special event in September, has been promoted to vice president of marketing as a reflection of an increasingly significant role in the department, according to the report.
Finally, former iPhone marketing executive Bob Borchers is back as vice president of marketing after tours of duty at Google and Dolby Laboratories. At Apple, Borchers will oversee iOS, iCloud and privacy-related marketing under Greg Joswiak.
9 to 5 Mac and Apple Insider quotes this Bloomberg article.
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