Cupertino, Ca., USA - December 18, 2015, Cupertino, Ca., USA - Apple announced that Jeff Williams has been named COO and Johny Srouji is joining Apple's executive team as SVP for hardware technologies.
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Mr. Williams joined Apple in 1998 as head of worldwide procurement and in 2004 he was named vice president of Operations. Since 2010 he has overseen Apple's entire supply chain, service and support, and the social responsibility initiatives which protect more than one million workers worldwide.
He played a key role in Apple's entry into the mobile phone market with the launch of iPhone, and he continues to supervise development of Apple’s first wearable product, Apple Watch.
In nearly eight years at Apple as vice president of Hardware Technologies, Mr. Srouji has built one of the world's strongest and most innovative teams of silicon and technology engineers, overseeing breakthrough custom silicon and hardware technologies including batteries, application processors, storage controllers, sensors silicon, display silicon and other chipsets across Apple's entire product line.
Educated at Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology, Mr. Srouji joined Apple in 2008 to lead development of the A4, the first Apple-designed system on a chip.
Phil Schiller, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, will expand his role to include leadership of the revolutionary App Store across all Apple platforms.
With added responsibility for the App Store, Mr. Schiller will focus on strategies to extend the ecosystem Apple customers have come to love when using their iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
Mr. Schiller now leads nearly all developer-related functions at Apple, in addition to his other marketing responsibilities including Worldwide Product Marketing, international marketing, education and business marketing.
Apple also announced that Tor Myhren will join Apple in the first calendar quarter of 2016 as vice president of Marketing Communications.
Mr. Myhren joins Apple from Grey Group, where he has served as chief creative officer and president of Grey New York. Under his leadership, Grey was named Adweek’s Global Agency of the Year for both 2013 and 2015. ■