Apple has announced that Jeff Williams is stepping down as chief operating officer later this month.Sabih Khan, Apple’s senior vice president of Operations, will assume the COO role as part of what Apple describes as a “long-planned succession.” Williams joined Apple in 1998 as the company’s head of Worldwide Procurement and became COO in 2015.Prior to joining Apple, he worked at IBM for thirteen years across multiple operations and engineering roles.
In his current role at Apple, he oversees the company’s entire worldwide operations, as well as customer service and support.He also leads Apple’s design team, as well as software and hardware engineering for Apple Watch and Apple’s broader health initiatives.In a press release announcing the news, Apple said that Williams will officially retire “late in the year.” In the meantime, he will “continue reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook and overseeing Apple’s world class design team and Apple Watch alongside the company’s Health initiatives.” When Williams officially retires later this year, Apple says that the design team will transition to reporting directly to Tim Cook.
Tim Cook: Jeff Williams: Meanwhile, Sabih Khan has been at Apple for 30 years.He was promoted to Apple’s senior vice president of Operations in 2019, leading “Apple’s global supply chain, ensuring product quality and overseeing planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics and product fulfillment functions, as well as Apple’s supplier responsibility programs that protect and educate workers at production facilities around the world.” Tim Cook, on Khan: My favorite iPhone accessories: Anker Power Bank with built-in USB-C Cable Charge your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods at the same time Bring wireless CarPlay to any car Anker MagSafe Power Bank Follow Chance: Threads, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastodon. You’re reading 9to5Mac — experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day.Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop.
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