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Jenny Cohen Derfler
Vice President, Global Operations
Jenny Cohen Derfler is the VP of Global Operations where she is responsible for the execution and scaling of Operations worldwide for Better Place. Cohen Derfler leads the Global Supply Chain (Procurement, Planning & Logistics), Corporate IT & HR functions and the enabling of new Operating Companies through the Scalability Program. Moreover, the Operations’ team leads the Better Place Operational Excellence programs including Cost Modeling, Training & Knowledge Management.
Cohen Derfler brings more than 21 years of experience at a multi-site global operation where she held a variety of leadership positions in Engineering and Operational posts within Intel Corporation, Numonyx Electronics and Micron Semiconductors. Prior to joining Better Place, Cohen Derfler, among other positions, served as General Manager of Intel 200mm Fabrication Plant in Israel. As part of different assignments within Intel Cohen Derfler worked in several locations, including the Haifa Product Design Center , the Jerusalem 6” Factory, then spent 4 years at Intel Headquarters in US California Technology Center in the Silicon Valley. In 1999 she returned to Kiryat Gat, Israel as part of startup team for the new Fabrication Plant as Testing Engineering manager and eventually became its General Manager.
Born in South America, lived in Uruguay and Argentina and moved to Israel where she graduated in Social Sciences at the Haifa University.