Mr. Mahlen was appointed Vice President of APAC sales and TPSCo Business Development in 2016. Previously, he served as VP of Asia Pacific Sales and China Business Development, VP of North America Sales and GM of Tower USA, and VP of APAC Sales and Power Business Development. Prior to this, he served as Director of Marketing for Tower Semiconductor’s Specialty Business Unit and was brought into Jazz Semiconductor in 2006 to establish a power technology business focus. Prior to Jazz, Mr. Mahlen worked at Polarfab, Inc., where he was one of the founding members orchestrating the change from an IDM to a pure-play foundry in 2000. Prior to PolarFab, he contributed as an Application Engineering Manager/Engineer focused on ICs for the hard disk drive market.