Apple Coo Jeff Williams Is Retiring This Year

Jeff Williams is stepping down from his station arsenic main operating serviceman astatine Apple, nan institution announced today. Sabih Khan, elder vice president of operations for nan company, will return complete nan COO title later this month. Following Williams' status later this year, nan creation squad that he had overseen will study straight to CEO Tim Cook. He besides leads nan teams for nan Apple Watch and nan company's Health initiatives, but nary specifications person been shared yet astir who will caput up those sections.

Williams joined Apple successful 1998. He was named to nan COO position successful 2015, nan first to clasp nan title for nan institution aft Cook near nan domiciled to go CEO. "Jeff and I person worked alongside each different for arsenic agelong arsenic I tin remember, and Apple wouldn’t beryllium what it is without him," Cook said of nan outgoing exec.

Khan is different longtime Apple employee, pinch 3 decades astatine nan tech giant. After joining nan executive squad successful 2019, he helmed Apple's world proviso chain. According to Cook, Khan "has precocious our eager efforts successful biology sustainability, helping trim Apple’s c footprint by much than 60 percent."