TowerJazz announced the appointment of Keiichi Kawabata as Representative Director and President of TowerJazz Japan and the nomination of Michael Song as Vice President of Sales and President of TowerJazz Korea. TowerJazz is strengthening its sales organization to focus on Japan business and providing increased business and technical support to address the customer needs in Japan and the APAC region. In his role, Kawabata will be responsible for leading the Business Development and Sales group.

He has nearly 30 years of managerial experience in creating global sales and marketing strategies through leadership and focused efforts (especially sales penetration and technical engineering/marketing) and building customer relationships through many years of experience working with people from diverse backgrounds. Kawabata's strength in leadership is based on scientific analytical thought, strategic marketing ability and project management skills, as well as devotion to developing newer, approaches to business processes. His experience includes roles at Novellus Japan Corp.

as President; Miyoshi Kasei Inc. as President; Avnet Japan Inc. as Representative Director and COO; and various executive positions for 20 years at Tokyo Electron Limited. Michael Song joined TowerJazz in 2009 as Korea Country Manager.