Dan Riccio

Daniel J. Riccio, Jr. (born 1965) is a vice president of engineering at Apple Inc. He was previously the Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, but he stepped down from the role in January 2021 to oversee unspecified and  projects at Apple.

Education
Riccio entered the in 1981 and received a B.S. in  in 1986.

Career
Riccio joined in 1997, where he became a senior manager of mechanical engineering and was responsible for the mechanical design of consumer PC products.

Apple Computer
In 1998, Riccio joined Apple Computer as vice president of product design.

Apple Inc.
In April 2010, Riccio became vice president of the iPad division. In August 2012, he became Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering upon the retirement of Bob Mansfield. His responsibilities included the engineering teams for the AirPods, Apple TV, Apple Watch, HomePod, iPad, iPhone, and Mac product lines.

On January 25, 2021, Riccio began transitioning to a new undisclosed project and was succeeded as senior VP by John Ternus. Riccio continues to report directly to CEO Tim Cook, and reportedly took over the development of and  headsets which had  previously stalled.