Apple's senior vice president Bob Mansfield, who announced his retirement in June 2012 only to return at the urging of CEO Tim Cook, is no longer listed among the top management team on Apple's website.
Mansfield's photo and biography were removed from Apple's leadership page in the last 24 hours, according to MacRumors, which spotted the change.
Apple didn't immediately respond to a request for comment today.
Mansfield, who was the longtime head of hardware engineering, had announced his retirement last year, with Cook thanking him at the time for his service and saying "we are very sad to have him leave." Two months later, though, Apple announced he was staying to work on "future products" and reporting to Cook.
In October, Mansfield was tapped to lead a new group called "Technologies" as part of a shakeup led by Cook that included the ouster of iOS chief Scott Forstall and retail head John Browett. Mansfield's new group combined all of Apple’s wireless teams across the company in one organization, and was also responsible for the semiconductor teams working on chips.
Mansfield, who has a BSEE degree from the University of Texas at Austin, joined Apple in 1999 when it acquired Raycer Graphics, where he was vice president of engineering. In 2005, he was given oversight of Mac hardware engineering. He took on iPhone and iPod hardware engineering in 2010 and was responsible for the hardware for the iPad since the tablet was conceived.
Dan Riccio became senior VP of Apple's hardware engineering in August 2012, at which time he joined Cook's management team.
