Bob Mansfield

Bob Mansfield was Senior Vice President of Technologies at Apple Inc.

Education
Mansfield earned a BSEE degree from the in 1982.

Career
Early in Mansfield's career, he was a senior director at. At IBM, he was program director of PowerPC development. He later became vice president of engineering at Raycer Graphics, which had been acquired by Apple in November 1999. Following the acquisition, Mansfield stayed at Apple to fill his new role of senior vice president of Mac Hardware Engineering, overseeing teams that delivered products such as the iMac, MacBook, MacBook Air and iPad.

In August 2010, Mansfield took over the position of Devices Hardware Engineering with the departure of Mark Papermaster. On June 28, 2012, Apple announced that Mansfield was retiring, and would be succeeded by Dan Riccio. However, Mansfield returned as Senior VP of Technologies with the departure of Scott Forstall later that year. Although Mansfield was no longer a part of the executive team as of July 2013, he continued to work at Apple "on special projects under CEO Tim Cook," among which include its electric car project.