Mark Papermaster joins Apple; Tony Fadell cuts back on his work

Posted by Dennis Sellers Nov 4, 2008 at 7:26am

It’s official: Apple has announced that Mark Papermaster is joining the company as senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering, reporting to CEO Steve Jobs. Papermaster, who comes to Apple from IBM, will lead Apple’s iPod and iPhone hardware engineering teams.

Papermaster has 25 years of product and technology experience, and was previously a vice president at IBM. And IBM isn’t happy about this; in fact, the company has filed a lawsuit against Apple to to prevent Papermaster from joining Jobs and company and divulging trade secrets related to IBM’s Power chips and server products

Apple also announced that Tony Fadell, Apple’s senior vice president of the iPod Division, and his wife Danielle Lambert, vice president of Human Resources, are reducing their roles within the company as they devote more time to their young family. Fadell will remain at Apple as an advisor to the CEO. Lambert will depart the company at the end of this year after a successor is in place.

“Mark is a seasoned leader and is going to be an excellent addition to our senior management team,” Jobs says in a press release. “Tony and Dani have each made important contributions to Apple over the past eight years. We’re sorry to see Dani go, and are looking forward to working with Tony in his new capacity.”

Papermaster has a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Texas, and Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont in 1988. He is active with the University of Texas where he is a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Council.

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