Mr. Ashkenazi was appointed Senior Vice President of Excellence in 2020 after serving as SVP and General Manager of Transfer, Optimization and Development Process Services Business Unit (TOPS) and Europe Sales since 2019 and formerly as Vice President of Worldwide Customer Solutions since 2015. He served as Vice President of Sales for APAC & Israel since 2008, after serving as General Manager, CMOS Product Line since 2005 and as Director of Customer Support, and Director of Reliability since 2003. Previously, he served as Application Manager at Tower USA in Santa Clara and prior to that he held engineering management positions within the process, test and product engineering groups. Mr. Ashkenazi holds a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Physics from the Hebrew University.