John Giannandrea
Scottish software engineer and businessman (Born 1964/1965)
John Giannandrea is a British software engineer and technology executive. He co-founded Metaweb and previously served in senior engineering roles at Tellme Networks, Netscape, and General Magic.2
From Wikipedia’s article on John Giannandrea (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born 1965.1
About
Giannandrea joined Google in 2010 and later became the company’s chief of search and artificial intelligence.
In 2018, Giannandrea moved to Apple Inc, where he was appointed senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy. He remained in that role until his departure was announced in late 2025, with retirement effective in early 2026.
From Wikipedia’s article on John Giannandrea, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
- Apple Inc.Senior vice president Dec 2018 to now12
- Apple Inc.Board member Apr 2018 to Dec 201812
- GoogleSenior vice president 2010 to 201813
Early life and education
- 1988University of Strathclyde computer science3
Career
Occupation: programmer.6
- Since 2018Senior vice president, Apple Inc.4
- 2018Director, Apple Inc.4
- 2010 to 2018Senior vice president, Google4
- 2005 to 2010Chief technology officer, Metaweb4
- 1999 to 2005Chief technology officer, Tellme Networks4
- 1994 to 1999Worked at Netscape4
- Date not recordedFounded Metaweb5
Giannandrea co-founded Metaweb, led Google Search and artificial intelligence, was co-founder and CTO of the speech recognition company Tellme Networks, chief technologist of the web browser group at Netscape, and senior engineer at General Magic. He subsequently worked at Google, rising to become their chief of search and artificial intelligence.
In 2018, Giannandrea left Google to join Apple Inc. He was appointed as senior vice president of machine learning and artificial intelligence strategy at Apple, one of 16 executives reporting directly to CEO Tim Cook. The department was rumored to have the most involvement with the later cancelled Apple electric car project. In March 2025, Giannandrea was reportedly ousted as the head of Siri development. In December 2025, Apple announced that Giannandrea would retire from the company effective early 2026.
From Wikipedia’s article on John Giannandrea (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Personal life
Links
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1WikidataJohn Giannandrea on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaJohn Giannandrea on Wikipedia
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13WikidataGoogle, Senior vice president