Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering is to leave the company. He will be replaced by Craig Federighi, currently VP of Mac Software Engineering.
Federighi is, according to Apple, responsible for the development of Mac OS X and has ‘been managing the Mac OS software engineering group for the past two years.’
Serlet was one of a number of senior Apple executives who joined the company following the acquisition of NeXT in 1997, when Steve Jobs returned to Apple. He was seen by many as the man responsible for the Cocoa API for Mac OS X.
‘I’ve worked with Steve for 22 years and have had an incredible time developing products at both NeXT and Apple, but at this point, I want to focus less on products and more on science,’ said Serlet in a statement.
Federighi also joined Apple from NeXT, but left in 1999. He re-joined in 2009 and has led Mac OS X engineering since.
