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Jon Rubinstein joined Apple Computer, Inc. in February 1997 as senior vice president of Hardware Engineering. Reporting directly to the CEO, Rubinstein leads the hardware engineering team and is responsible for the development, industrial design, and user interface of all of Apple’s hardware products. Rubinstein brings over 20 years of industry experience to this role.
Before joining Apple, Rubinstein was executive vice president and chief operating officer of FirePower Systems, a developer and manufacturer of PowerPC-based computer systems. There he was responsible for strategic planning, engineering, manufacturing, and sales and marketing for the company.
Prior to FirePower, Rubinstein was vice president and general manager of Hardware and vice president of Hardware Engineering at NeXT Computer, where he was responsible for product development and instrumental in defining the company’s new product development process. Before that, Rubinstein managed processor development for the Titan Graphics Supercomputer family at Stardent Computer, as well as designed and architected portions of the Stardent 3000 and 2000 computer systems. At Hewlett Packard, Rubinstein architected the HP 9000 Series 300 family of workstations, was a member of the design team for the HP 9836 workstation, and helped define the engineering and pre-production test processes for new products.
In addition to holding several patents, Rubinstein has been published in a number of computer industry publications. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Rubinstein holds Masters and Bachelors of Science degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Colorado State University.
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