12 Most Influential Apple Executives Online


Bangalore: In the era of “social” living, lack of an online Avatar is nothing less than being dead, irrespective of whomever you are- the CEO of a multinational company or an employee of a small organization.

PeekYou, a company determined to find online influence of famous people around the world has recently released a list of the most influential, hot executives of the Cupertino tech giant, Apple.

PeekYou measured their online presence and influence by scanning content from more than 60 social sites, blogs, news sources and home pages, followed by giving them a ‘PeekScore,’ on a scale from one to ten, based on social networking statistics, blog activities, number of followers, friends and so on.

When it comes to Apple, as we all expect, its late CEO Steve Jobs used to get a PeekScore of 10 out of 10 over the years. But in his absence, let’s check out who are the new unknown digital stars of one of the World’s most admired company.     

#12 Dan Riccio

Senior Vice President

Hardware Engineering

PeekScore: 7.00 out of 10

Dan, who joined Apple in 1998 as vice president of Product Design is now the senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, reporting to the CEO, Tim Cook. He leads the Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod engineering teams which have delivered dozens of breakthrough products.

Dan recently got a promotion along with Apple’s Stock grants worth $50 million.