According to reports, in a major leadership shakeup happening over at Apple, Indian-origin business executive Sabih Khan has been named the new chief operating officer.

The technology leader revealed that its current COO, Jeff Williams, 62, will be resigning from his role later this month. In a planned transition, Williams will take on a new role while continuing to report to Apple CEO Tim Cook. He will now oversee the world-class design team and the Apple Watch, as well as the company's health initiatives, according to reports.

The veteran of 27 years at the company is set to retire later this year. As a result, Apple’s design team will begin reporting directly to Cook. The Indian-origin executive, whose lineage traces back to Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, was born in 1966. Currently, he leads the company's operations. Khan, who has been with Apple for three decades, is also notable for his long tenure, per reports.

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Tim Cook has described him as a brilliant strategist who has been one of the key architects of Apple’s supply chain,” and has now handed over the responsibilities to Sabih Khan.

Apple CEO says, “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. He has advanced our ambitious efforts in environmental sustainability, helping reduce Apple’s carbon footprint by more than 60 percent. Above all, Sabih leads with his heart and his values, and I know he will make an exceptional chief operating officer.”

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Sabih joined Apple’s executive team in 2019, coming in as senior vice president of Operations. But he started out in the company as a member of Apple’s procurement group in 1995. For the past six years, he’s headed Apple’s global supply chain, ensured product quality and overseen planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and product fulfillment functions. He even shouldered the company’s supplier responsibility programs that protect and educate workers at production facilities all over the world.