Mr. Ellwanger was appointed Chief Executive Officer in May 2005. Previously, 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.
Mr. Ellwanger also 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.

Dr. Edrei was appointed President in November 2011. He previously served as an Executive Vice President of Tower Business Units and Business Development since 2008, and as Senior Vice President of Product Lines and Worldwide Sales since August 2005. In 1996, Dr. Edrei established the Research and Development Group at Tower. He was the Director of R&D and later Vice President of R&D from August 2001. From 1994 to 1996, Dr. Edrei served as Tower’s Device and Yield Department Manager.
Prior to joining Tower, he was employed by National Semiconductor as Device and Yield Section Head.
Dr. Edrei received his Ph.D. in Physics and his B.Sc. in Computer Science and Physics from Bar Ilan University in Israel in 1988 and 1983 respectively. From 1988-1990, he did his Post Doctorate at Rutgers University, NJ.

Mr. Koltin was appointed Chief Operating Officer in February of 2013. He previously served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations since November 2011, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations since 2009, Fab 1 Manager since April 2007, and Vice President of Business Development since August 2005. He also served as Vice President, General Foundry and Mixed Signal Technology since 2003 and as Senior Director, FAB2 Process Engineering since 2000. From 1996–1999, Mr. Koltin served in several senior positions as Director, NVM Technology, CIS Technology and ERS Manager, Fab 1.
Prior to joining Tower, he was employed at National Semiconductor and the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Mr. Koltin holds a M.Sc. in Materials Engineering and a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Mr. Shirazi was appointed Chief Financial Officer in November 2004, after serving as Controller since July 2000. He joined Tower in October 1998 serving as Vice Controller. Previously, he was employed as an Audit Manager in the accounting firm of Ratzkovski-Fried & Co., which merged into Ernst & Young (Israel), commencing August 1995.
Mr. Shirazi is a Certified Public Accountant in Israel (CPA), and has an MBA in Business Management from the Graduate School of Business at Haifa University with honors and a B.A. in Economics and Accounting from Haifa University.

Ms. Dahan was appointed Senior Vice President of Human Resources in April 2004, and IT Manager in January of 1998. She served as Director of Personnel, Recreation & Compensation from 1998 through 2004 and as Compensation and Benefits Manager from 1993 to 2004.
Previously, she was employed by ORS, a manpower company as the manager of the company’s northern branch responsible for all recruitment activities and the daily personnel and compensation activities of approximately 150 employees.
Ms. Dahan holds an MBA from the University of Derby and a B.A. in Social Science from Haifa University.

Ms. Somekh was appointed Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary in September 2008, having served as Corporate Secretary and General Counsel since March 2005, and as Associate General Counsel since May 2004.
From 2001-2004, she was employed by Goldsobel & Kirshen, Adv., specializing in the areas of intellectual property, biotechnology and corporate law.
Ms. Somekh holds an LL.M and J.D. from Boston University and a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University. She is a member of the Israeli Bar Association and the New York Bar.

Mr. Netzer was appointed Senior Vice President of Corporate Planning in February 2013 after serving as Vice President of Corporate Planning since November 2008. Prior to this, he served as General Manager of Mixed Signal, RF and Power Management Product Lines since 2005 and as Director, FAB 2 Yield and Device Engineering Manager since 2000. From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Netzer served in various engineering management positions within the R&D division dealing with CMOS, Mixed Signal, RF, and NVM Technologies.
Prior to joining Tower, Mr. Netzer was employed at National Semiconductor and the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Mr. Netzer holds a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Mr. Mor was appointed CEO of TowerJazz Japan in October 2012, after serving as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Newport Beach since September 2008. Since April 2007, he was Vice President of Business Development for Tower Semiconductor. Previously, he served as Tower's Vice President and Fab 2 Manager since August 2005, and as Fab 1 Manager since march 2003. From November 2000 to March 2003, Mr. Mor served as Senior Director of Process Device & Yield of Fab 1. From 1998 to 2000, he served as Director of Equipment Reliability & Support of Fab 1.
Prior to this, he was employed by National Semiconductor in various engineering and management capacities.
Mr. Mor earned his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Isreal.