Jeff Williams (born 1963) is an American business executive and

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, a position he has held since December 2015.

Education

Williams studied at Jesse O. Sanderson High School in

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. Williams received a

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with a major in

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

from

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in 1985 and a

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration; elective courses may allow further study in a particular a ...

from

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

Career

Williams worked for

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from 1985 to 1998 in a number of operations and engineering roles. 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

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and

iPhone The iPhone is a line of smartphones developed and marketed by Apple that run iOS, the company's own mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by then–Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, at ...

since that time. On December 17, 2015, he was appointed

for Apple. On June 27, 2019, with the announcement that Jony Ive was leaving Apple to form an independent design company, it was announced that Apple's 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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1960s births Year of birth uncertain Living people IBM employees 20th-century American businesspeople 21st-century American businesspeople Apple Inc. executives American chief operating officers Jesse O. Sanderson High School alumni Fuqua School of Business alumni {{US-business-bio-1960s-stub

Education

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