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Russell C. Ellwanger
Chief Executive Officer of Tower Semiconductor, Chairman of Jazz Semiconductor
Mr. Ellwanger has served as Tower Semicondutor.s Chief Executive Officer since May 2005 and as Chairman of the Board of Jazz Semiconductor since September 2008. From 1998 to 2005, he served in various executive positions for Applied Materials Corporation, including Group Vice President, General Manager of the Applied Global Services (AGS) division from 2004 to 2005, and Group Vice President, General Manager of the CMP and Electroplating Business Group from 2002 to 2004.
Mr. Ellwanger also served as Corporate Vice President, General Manager of the Metrology and Inspection Business Group from 2000 to 2002, during which he was based in Israel. From 1998 to 2000, he served as Vice President of Applied Materials. 300-mm Program Office, USA. Previously, Mr. Ellwanger served as General Manager of Applied Materials. Metal CVD Division from 1997 to 1998 and from 1996 to 1997, he served as Managing Director of CVD Business Development, during which he was based in Singapore. In addition, Mr. Ellwanger held various managerial positions at Novellus Systems, Inc. from 1992 to 1996 and at Philips Semiconductors from 1980 to 1992.
Marco Racanelli
Senior VP and General Manager, RF and High Performance Analog Business Group and Aerospace & Defense Business Group, Jazz Semiconductor/Member, Jazz Board of Directors
Dr. Racanelli was appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager, RF and High Performance Analog Business Group and Aerospace & Defense Group and appointed to the Board of Directors of Jazz Semiconductor in September 2008. Previously, he served as Vice President of Technology and Engineering, Aerospace/Defense General Manager for Jazz.
Prior to Jazz, Dr. Racanelli held several positions of increasing responsibility at Conexant and Rockwell Semiconductor Systems since 1996 in the area of technology development. In these positions, he helped establish industry leadership in SiGe and BiCMOS technology, and was instrumental in building a strong design support organization.
Prior to joining Rockwell, Dr. Racanelli worked at Motorola, Inc., where he contributed to bipolar, SiGe and SOI development for Motorola.s Semiconductor Products Sector. He holds a number of patents and has authored or co-authored more than 40 technical publications.
Dr. Racanelli received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.
Nabil Alali
Senior Vice President, Fab Operations and Site Facilities, Jazz Semiconductor/Member, Jazz Board of Directors
Mr. Alali was appointed Senior Vice President of Fab Operations and Site Facilities and a Member of the Board of Directors of Jazz in September 2008. Previously, he served as Vice President of Operations since April 2006. He has held several key positions with Jazz, formerly serving as General Manager, Newport Beach Operations, and Executive Director of Fabrication & Equipment Engineering. Previously, Mr. Alali held roles as Equipment Engineering Director and Photolithography Production Manager for Conexant Systems, Inc., from April 1994 to March 2002. While at Conexant, he was responsible for the implementation of several equipment improvement programs, Fab yield improvement programs, new product introduction to fabrication, and key manufacturing excellence productivity improvement programs, as well as leading several manufacturing-wide cost reduction and restructuring initiatives.
Before joining Conexant, Mr. Alali held various positions in production and manufacturing engineering at Rohm & Haas Electronic Materials from 1986 to 1994. Mr. Alali received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Long Beach. He has completed an Executive MBA Certificate program from the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Irvine.
Allen R. Grogan
Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer , Jazz Semiconductor
Mr. Grogan has been Chief Legal Officer since February 2007 and Senior Vice President since March 2007. From 2000 until 2006, he was Vice President Corporate Development, General Counsel and Secretary at Viacore, Inc., a provider of B2B supply chain solutions, where he managed and coordinated all of the company's legal work as well as identified, evaluated and executed strategies to acquire technology and create value through alliances and partnerships. Viacore was acquired by IBM Corporation in 2006. From 1984 until 2000 Mr. Grogan was a Partner in the Los Angeles law firm Blanc Williams Johnston & Kronstadt, where as a business lawyer he represented a number of public and private companies and individuals in the computer, online and high technology industries. While in private practice, Mr. Grogan co-founded in 1984 The Computer and Internet Lawyer (originally entitled The Computer Lawyer), a monthly publication of Aspen Publishing Law &amop; Business, served for fifteen years as its co-editor-in-chief, and continues to serve as a consulting editor.
Mr. Grogan received an A.B. from Oberlin College with honors in psychology, an M.A. in communications management from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California and a J.D. from the University of Southern California School of Law.
Susanna Bennett
Vice President, Finance, Jazz Semiconductor
Mrs. Bennett was appointed Vice President of Finance in September 2008. Previously, she served as Senior Vice President and Assistant Chief Financial Officer since January 2008. She joined Jazz with over 20 years of leadership experience, primarily in the Finance organizations of high technology companies.
Previously, Mrs. Bennett was a CFO partner at Tatum LLC focusing on M&A and IPO assignments in China. Previously, she was CFO of eEye Inc., a network security software company. Prior to her role as a Transition Executive at IBM Corporation, she was CFO of Viacore Inc., a supply-chain software and services provider, from start-up to its acquisition by IBM. She was also on the management-buy-out team that found Printrak International Inc., a fingerprint identification systems provider, where she held multiple executive roles including VP Finance & Admin and executed restructurings, IPO and M&As. Prior to the buy-out, she was Corporate Controller of De La Rue Printrak Inc., which was formerly a technology group of Rockwell International Inc.
Mrs. Bennett earned an Executive MBA from Pepperdine University and a BA with honors in Business Administration Accounting from CSUF. She has completed executive programs at UCLA, Harvard and MIT and is the Orange County Chapter 07/08 President of Financial Executive International.
Chuck Fox
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Tower Semiconductor
Mr. Fox was appointed Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales for Tower Semiconductor in September 2008 and previously served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Jazz Semiconductor since July 2007. His diverse background includes senior positions at industry leaders Intel and Xilinx coupled with extensive fabless startup experience in the wireless, networking and multimedia markets with DSP, FPGA, ASIC and High Speed Analog Mixed-Signal technologies.
Previously, Mr. Fox was CEO of KeyEye Communications, a fabless analog-intensive mixed-signal semiconductor company. He also served as President and CEO of Chameleon Systems, a high performance DSP processor company and Vice President of Marketing for Cradle Technologies, a multi-processor DSP chip company. Mr. Fox was instrumental at Xilinx in growing it from a small private company into a multi-billion dollar industry FPGA leader both as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and as Division General Manager. He also spent 10 years in various management positions at Intel.
Mr. Fox earned both BSEE and MBA degrees with honors from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and completed the AEA Executive program at Stanford University.
Bala Govender
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Tower Semiconductor
Mr. Govender was appointed Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Tower Semiconductor in September 2008 and previously served as Information Technology Executive Director and Chief Information Officer for Jazz Semiconductor since April 2006. Mr. Govender also served as Executive Director of Information Technology at Jazz from May, 2004 to March, 2006.
Prior to this, he held the position of Executive Director of Information Technology at Mindspeed Technologies and Conexant Systems. He joined Rockwell Semiconductor in 1996 and served as Director, Information Technology, with responsibilities for Core Business Processes and applicable Systems.
Before joining Rockwell, Mr. Govender spent 15 years at Unilever South Africa (Pty) Ltd. He held various positions in Sales, Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, and Information Technology. He served as Commercial Officer for 4 years, and his last assignment was Team Leader, Business Process Reengineering and SAP applications. Mr. Govender received his Bachelors in Accounting Science from the University of South Africa.
Andy Chan
Vice President, Business Development and China Foundry Relations, Jazz Semiconductor
Mr. Chan was appointed Vice President of Business Development and China Foundry Operations for Jazz in September 2008 and previously served as Vice President of Corporate Development and Purchasing since December 2007. He joined Jazz in 2003 to lead Supply Chain Management and Information Technology and has also managed the company.s China foundry partner relationships. Most recently, he served as Executive Director, Purchasing and Corporate Development. Prior to Jazz, Mr. Chan was Vice President of Business Operations and Supply Chain Management for Mindspeed Technologies and in 2000, he served as Vice President of Supply Chain Management at Conexant Systems.
Previously, Mr. Chan.s focus was in aviation and aerospace services. He served in diverse management roles at Eastern Airlines, Continental Express and most recently at Allied Signal (now called Honeywell) as Sr. Director of Strategic Business Development. He has broad based technical and management experience in engineering, planning, information systems management, business development and supply chain management.
Mr. Chan earned a B.S. degree in Management from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and an MBA with a specialization in Computer System Management and Operations Research from Nova University. He also holds a Jurisprudence Doctorate (J.D.) degree from South Texas College of Law.
Jeff McHenry
Vice President of Quality and Reliability, Jazz Semiconductor
Mr. McHenry was appointed Vice President of Quality and Reliability in September 2008 and previously served as Vice President of Executive Operations for Jazz since July 2007. He has served in various positions with Jazz since its inception, most recently as Vice President of Customer Solutions & Supply Chain Management since December 2003. From March 2002 to December 2003, he was Executive Director of Marketing.
Prior to Jazz, Mr. McHenry was Conexant's Director of Foundry Services. He held various positions in business planning and product marketing, and served as Director of Supply Chain Management where he was responsible for driving company-wide forecasts, balancing supply/demand requirements for both internal and external customers, and achieving customer delivery performance metrics. He played a key role in the development of the Jazz initial business plan and strategy, as well as the establishment of initial customer engagements. Mr. McHenry also directed the implementation of the company's infrastructure to support the new foundry model.
Mr. McHenry holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of California, Irvine. He has completed numerous courses as a part of Stanford's continuing education executive programs.
Daniel T. Lynch
Vice President of Human Resources, Jazz Semiconductor
Mr. Lynch has served as Vice President of Human Resources since March 2002. He was Conexant.s Executive Director of Employee Relations from January 1999, responsible for all employee and labor relations activity, as well as health, safety and workers. compensation initiatives.
During his 26-year career with Conexant and Rockwell International, Mr. Lynch has been responsible for all major elements of human resources including staffing, compensation, training, performance management systems and employee communications.
Mr. Lynch received his bachelor.s degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles, and earned a master.s degree in Industrial Relations from George Washington University.
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