Apple announced that Bertrand Serlet, Apple's SVP of Mac Software Engineering, will be leaving the company. Serlet joined Apple in 1997. Before joining Apple, Serlet spent four years at Xerox PARC, then joined NeXT in 1989. Craig Federighi, Apple's VP of Mac Software Engineering, will assume Serlet's responsibilities and report to Steve Jobs. Federighi worked at NeXT, followed by Apple, and then spent a decade at Ariba where he held several roles including VP of Internet Services and CTO. He returned to Apple in 2009 to lead Mac OS X engineering.