PRESS RELEASE
July 8, 2003
Avie Tevanian Named Chief Software Technology Officer of Apple
Bertrand Serlet Promoted to Senior Vice President of Software Engineering
CUPERTINO, California—July 8, 2003—Apple® today announced that Avadis “Avie” Tevanian Jr., Ph.D., will become the company's chief software technologyofficer and Bertrand Serlet will be promoted to senior vice president ofSoftware Engineering. In his new role, Tevanian will focus on settingcompany-wide software technology directions, and Serlet will now reportdirectly to Apple CEO Steve Jobs and lead the company's OS SoftwareEngineering group.
“This will be a seamless handoff,” said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. “Panther,the next major release of Mac OS X, is in great shape and everything is ontrack to ship it later this year, making this a good time to let Avie returnto a more hands-on technical role and to promote Bertrand to lead our entireOS software engineering team.”
“This is something I've wanted to do for some time,” said Avie Tevanian,Apple's newly appointed chief software technology officer. “I'm incrediblyproud of the products the software engineering team has delivered over thepast few years, and I am 100% confident that their success will continueunder Bertrand's leadership.”
Serlet has been Apple's vice president of Platform Technology, managing thelargest part of the Mac® OS software engineering group. He joined Apple in1997 and has been a key player in the definition, development and creationof Mac OS X. Before joining Apple, Serlet spent four years at Xerox PARC,then joined NeXT in 1989. Serlet holds a doctorate in Computer Science fromthe University of Orsay, France.
Tevanian joined Apple in February of 1997 as senior vice president ofSoftware Engineering, and holds a Ph.D. and a Masters of Science degree incomputer science from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Artsdegree in mathematics from the University of Rochester.
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