Sabih Khan (born 1966) is an Indian-American business executive, who is the senior vice president (SVP) of operations at

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He oversees Apple's global

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, and is responsible for Apple's supplier responsibility programs.

Early life and education

Khan was born in 1966 in

Moradabad Moradabad () is an industrial city, commissionerate, and municipal corporation in Moradabad district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is situated on the banks of the Ramganga river, at a distance of from the national capital, New Del ...

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. His family moved to

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

when he was in fifth grade. He earned a bachelor of economics and mechanical engineering from

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as Talloires, France. Tufts also has several Doctor of Physical Therapy p ...

, and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (; RPI) is a private university, private research university in Troy, New York, United States. It is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere. It was establishe ...

Career

GE Plastics

Khan worked for GE Plastics (now

SABIC Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (), known as SABIC (), is a Saudi chemical manufacturing company. 70% of SABIC's shares are owned by Saudi Aramco. It is active in petrochemicals, chemicals, industrial polymers and fertilizers. It is the second ...

), where he was an applications development engineer and key account technical leader.

Apple

Khan joined Apple in 1995. On June 27, 2019, Khan was named senior vice president of operations, reporting to Jeff Williams. In his role at Apple, Khan's operations department has been responsible for establishing partnerships with green manufacturing suppliers. Additionally, Khan's department was responsible for changes to suppliers' operations in response to the

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References

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