Apple elevates Indian-origin Sabih Khan as chief operating officer
New Delhi (PTI): iPhone maker Apple has elevated Indian-origin Sabih Khan to the position of chief operating officer, the company said on Wednesday.
Khan, who will take over the role from Jeff Williams later this month, has been at Apple for 30 years and joined the executive team as senior vice president of operations in 2019.
He was born in 1966 in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh where he studied till fifth grade before his family moved to Singapore.
"Jeff Williams will transition his role as chief operating officer later this month to Sabih Khan, Apple's senior vice president of operations, as part of a long-planned succession," Apple said in a statement.
Williams 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. Apple's design team will then transition to reporting directly to Cook after Williams retires late in the year.
Khan has been been looking after Apple's supply chain and manufacturing operations.
On Khan's elevation, Cook said: "While overseeing Apple's supply chain, he has helped pioneer new technologies in advanced manufacturing, overseen the expansion of Apple's manufacturing footprint in the United States, and helped ensure that Apple can be nimble in response to global challenges."
Before joining Apple's procurement group in 1995, Khan worked as an applications development engineer and key account technical leader at GE Plastics.
Khan completed his schooling in Singapore and then moved to the US where he earned a bachelor's degrees in economics and mechanical engineering from Tufts University and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
