{"id":25401,"date":"2019-06-28T06:38:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T04:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/28\/apple-announces-sabih-khan-as-new-vp-of-operations\/"},"modified":"2019-06-28T06:38:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T04:38:46","slug":"apple-announces-sabih-khan-as-new-vp-of-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/apple-announces-sabih-khan-as-new-vp-of-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Announces Sabih Khan as New VP of Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 28-06-2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaizelPatel143\" rel=\"alternate\">Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apple has announced that Sabih Khan, a 24-year Apple veteran, has been named to the company\u2019s executive team as senior vice president of Operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khan has played an important role in delivering each of Apple\u2019s innovative products to market since the late 1990s, leading key product operations and supply chain functions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He will continue to report to Jeff Williams, Apple\u2019s chief operating officer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his new role, Khan will be in charge of Apple\u2019s global supply chain, ensuring product quality and overseeing planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics and product fulfillment functions, as well as Apple\u2019s supplier responsibility programs that protect and educate workers at production facilities around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CEO Tim Cook says Khan leads the ops team with heart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe and his entire worldwide team are committed to delivering unmatched experiences to our customers, treating workers everywhere with dignity and respect, and protecting the environment for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Operations team is responsible for driving scale across the global supply chain and accelerating manufacturing innovation, including developing and scaling a new aluminum alloy that enables the use of 100 percent recycled aluminum in MacBook Air and Mac mini enclosures without compromising quality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The team also supports Apple\u2019s environmental initiatives by partnering with suppliers to propel green manufacturing, helping conserve resources and protect the planet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before joining Apple\u2019s procurement group in 1995, Khan worked as an applications development engineer and key account technical leader at GE Plastics. He earned bachelor\u2019s degrees in Economics and Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University and a master\u2019s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 28-06-2019 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143) \u00a0 Apple has announced that Sabih Khan, a 24-year Apple veteran, has been named to the company\u2019s executive team as senior vice president of Operations. Khan has played an important role in delivering each of Apple\u2019s innovative products to market since the late 1990s, leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-6BH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 14:10:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}