[Music] [Music] in yet another high-profile appointment for an indian-american executive Apple has announced Kevin paric as a Chief Financial Officer following Luca Myer's exit from the tech giant at the end of the year paric is currently Apple's vice president of financial planning and Analysis and will take over as a CFO from January 1st 2025 and report to CEO Tim Cook Pari completed his bachelor's in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1993 an MBA from University of Chicago's boo School of Business in 1999 before making his way to Apple in 2013 baric had held senior leadership roles at Thompson Reuters and General Motors these roles included Vice President of Finance corporate Treasurer and Director of Business Development he joined Apple in 2013 serving as the vice president of financial planning and Analysis overseeing critical areas and also leading Finance for worldwide sales retail and marketing for the tech giant according to Bloomberg parik has been groomed for the role of the CFO by ma3 over the past several months Tim Cook in a statement said that for over a decade Kevin has been an integral part of Apple's Finance leadership with a profound grasp of the company his intelligence judgment and financial expertise make him the ideal Choice as Apple's next CFO parik joins a long list of indian-american Executives who have been appointed at top roles in the Silicon Valley and multinational corporations around the world [Music] [Applause]