Bob Mansfield, the Apple executive at the center of a mysterious executive shakeup last year, has disappeared from the company's executive leadership page.
The Apple technology chief's bio vanished from thepage in the past 24 hours, according toMacRumors, which first reported on the development. However, a version of his page retrieved a week ago is still accessible onGoogle's Web cache.
Mansfield, who was formerly Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, announced his intention to retire in June 2012, and the company announced he would be replaced by Dan Riccio, Apple's vice president of iPad hardware engineering.
Apple never commented publicly on the event, but the selection of Riccio as Mansfield's replacement apparently did not sit well with company's some of the company's top employees, who went to Cook to protest the choice, according toBloomberg Businessweek. After several senior members on Mansfield's team voiced concern that Riccio was prepared for the job, Cook reportedly approached Mansfield and offered him a pay package worth $2 million a month to stay with the company.That decision was soon overturned as part of a change-up in Apple's top ranks that left him as an adviser to CEO Tim Cook on "future products." Two months later, Apple changed his role once again, putting him charge of the company's technologies group.
A leaked company-wide e-mail from Cook last October noted that Mansfield would be staying on with Apple for another two years. A month later, Mansfield, who joined Apple when the company acquired Raycer Graphics in 1999, sold 35,000 shares of Apple stock, worth just over $20.37 million, leaving him with about 30,000 shares.
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