Ziv Hammer

Ziv Hammer, Senior Vice President, Design Platforms and Services at GF. In this role, Mr. Hammer leads the central engineering group that collaborates across product lines and is responsible for providing end-to-end turnkey services (design, package, tests), creating best in class design flows and Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio and enabling a rich ecosystem of IP, EDA, design services, Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) partners that provide comprehensive solutions to GF customers.

With more than 20 years of global semiconductor design industry experience, Mr. Hammer has built over a thousand-person winning engineering teams that are both multi-national and multi-disciplinary. With an emphasis on developing people through technology, Mr. Hammer successfully led complex technology strategy from definition through productization.

He holds an Executive MBA in High Tech Management from Tel Aviv University and a bachelor’s degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Ben-Guriun University, both located in Israel.