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Chief Operating Officer of Apple Inc.
Jeff Williams
(born 1963) is
Apple
's
chief operating officer
under
CEO
Tim Cook
, a position he has held since December 2015.
Biography
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Williams joined Apple in 1998 as head of worldwide procurement and in 2004 he was named vice president of Operations. In 2007, he played a significant role in Apple's entry into the mobile phone market with the launch of the iPhone, and he has led worldwide operations for
iPod
and
iPhone
since that time.
Prior to Apple, Williams worked for
IBM
from 1985 to 1998 in a number of operations and engineering roles. He holds a
B.S.
in
Mechanical Engineering
from
North Carolina State University
and an
MBA
from
Duke University
. Williams attended
Jesse O. Sanderson High School
in
Raleigh, North Carolina
.
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He was promoted to
chief operating officer
on 17 December 2015.
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On June 27, 2019, with the announcement that
Jony Ive
was leaving Apple to form an independent design company with Apple as client, it was noted that design team leaders Evans Hankey, vice president of Industrial Design, and Alan Dye, vice president of Human Interface Design, will report to Jeff Williams.
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