Kevan Parekh

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Kevan Parekh
Born1972 (age 5152)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of Michigan (B.S.)
University of Chicago (MBA)
Occupation(s) Vice President , Apple Inc.

Kevan Parekh (born 1972) is the incoming chief financial officer (CFO) of Apple. [1] [2] [3]

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Education

Parekh has a bachelor's of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. [1] [2] [4]

Career

Before Apple, Parekh worked at Thomson Reuters for over four years and at General Motors for over five years. [1] [5] [6]

Apple

Parekh has been at Apple for 11 years [7] and is currently the vice president of Financial Planning and Analysis. [8] Before this, he was the head of Worldwide Sales, Retail, and Marketing Finance at Apple. [1] He started his Apple career as the head of financial support of some of Apple's business divisions. Parekh recently got additional responsibilities at Apple when former Apple finance executive Saori Casey left Apple. [5] [7] [9]

He will replace Luca Maestri as the CFO of Apple from 1 January 2025. [1] [3] [8]

Parekh will become part of Apple's executive team as its CFO and report to Tim Cook. [9]

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