John Ternus is officially set to take over as Apple CEO on September 1. Ahead of that, he’s shaping the team around him and has brought back a key hardware engineering executive who retired several years ago.
Bloomberg reports that Ternus has hired Laura Legros to join his management team. Legros retired in 2022 after serving as a VP of hardware engineering on Ternus’s team.
When she returns to the company, Legros will reportedly “act as a vice president working cross-functionally with different parts of the company.” She will report directly to Ternus when he takes over as CEO on September 1.
Mark Gurman has some context on Legros’s role at Apple before retiring:
During her career at Apple, Legros helped manage product delivery, development schedules and coordination across engineering teams to ensure they remained aligned.
