Johny Srouji

Johny Srouji (Arabic: جوني سروجي; Hebrew: ג'וני סרוג'י; born 1964) is an Arab Israeli executive Apple's senior vice president of Hardware Technologies, reporting to CEO Tim Cook.
Early life and education.
Srouji was born in Haifa, Israel, to an Arab Christian family originally from Lebanon. In high school, he got perfect grades in math, physics, chemistry, and science and was introduced to computers by an instructor who also taught at the nearby Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He later enrolled at the Technion, earning both a bachelor's degree ("summa cum laude") and master's degree ("magna cum laude") in computer science.
Srouji is fluent in four languages: Arabic, Hebrew, French, and English.
Career.
In 2008, Srouji led development of the Apple A4, the first Apple-designed system on a chip.
Srouji was responsible for setting up Apple’s R&D center in Herzliya, Israel, its second largest in the world.
In 2019 Intel considered Srouji a candidate to be its next CEO.
In 2020, during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, Srouji announced the transition of Apple's Macintosh line of personal computers from Intel's x86 CPU architecture to their own Apple silicon.