Dan Riccio

Dan Riccio
Born	Daniel J. Riccio
Alma mater	University of Massachusetts Amherst
Occupation	Senior Vice president at Apple
Board member of	Apple

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

Biography

Dan joined Apple in 1998 as vice president of Product Design and in 2010 was named vice president of iPad Hardware Engineering. Dan has been a key contributor to most of the company's hardware over his career and was instrumental in all of Apple's iPad products since the first generation iPad was introduced.

Prior to Apple, Dan worked at Compaq^[3] as Senior Manager of Mechanical Engineering where he was responsible for the mechanical design of Compaq's Consumer PC products. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

References

1. "Dan Riccio". www.apple.com. Apple Inc. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
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. "Who Is Dan Riccio? Apple Transitions Hardware Leadership Role From Bob Mansfield". www.ibtimes.com. International Business Times. Retrieved 4 December 2014.