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Corinne Reichert Apple's incoming CEO, John Ternus, joined the tech giant back in 2001 as part of the product design team, having previously worked as a mechanical engineer at Virtual Research Systems. He has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.Ternus has risen through the ranks at Apple over the past 25 years, becoming a VP of hardware engineering in 2013 and then SVP in 2021. During those years, Ternus worked across many flagship devices, including the iPad, AirPods, iPhone, Apple Watch and, most recently, the MacBook Neo."John Ternus has th