Overview

• Jeff Williams will relinquish the chief operating officer title later this month and retire at the end of the year while remaining responsible for Apple’s design team, Apple Watch and health initiatives.
• Sabih Khan, who has led Apple’s global supply chain and operations for 30 years, will formally take on the COO role as part of a long-planned succession.
• After Williams retires, the company’s design team will report directly to CEO Tim Cook under a broader reorganization of top management.
• Tim Cook credited Williams with building Apple’s supply-chain excellence and pioneering its health-tech strategy, and he hailed Khan’s work in advanced manufacturing and U.S. production expansion.
• As senior vice president of operations since 2019, Khan oversaw supplier responsibility programs and helped reduce Apple’s carbon footprint by over 60 percent.