Amaya Toman After a short break, we bring you another part of our column, in which we focus on brief profiles of Apple executives. This time it was the turn of Bob Mansfield, who worked at Apple in senior positions for many years.
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Bob Mansfield graduated from the University of Texas in 1982. In the course of his working career, he worked, for example, as a senior director at Silicon Graphics International, but he also worked at Raycer Graphics, which was later bought by Apple in 1999. Mansfield became one of the employees of the Cupertino company after the acquisition. Here he got the position of senior vice president for Mac hardware engineering, and his tasks included, for example, overseeing the teams that were in charge of the iMac, MacBook, MacBook Air, but also the iPad. In August 2010, Mansfield took over the oversight of the hardware facilities following the departure of Mark Papemaster and retired for two years.
However, it was only a "paper" departure - Mansfield continued to remain at Apple, where he worked mainly on unspecified "future projects" and reported directly to Tim Cook. At the end of October 2012, Apple officially announced that it would entrust Mansfield with the new position of senior vice president of technology - this happened after the departure of Scott Forstall from the company. But Mansfield's profile did not warm up for too long in the list of Apple executives - in the summer of 2013, his biography disappeared from the relevant Apple website, but the company confirmed that Bob Mansfield will continue to participate in the development of "special projects under the leadership of Tim Cook". Mansfield's name was at one time also associated with the development of the Apple Car, but the relevant project was recently taken over by John Giannandrea, and according to Apple, Mansfield retired for good.
