Maxine Fassberg

Maxine Fassberg (Hebrew: מקסין פסברג) (born c. 1953)[2] is a South African-Israeli retired educator, engineer, and CEO.

She immigrated from South Africa to Israel in 1975 and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

After teaching high school chemistry for a few years, she switched careers and began working for Intel as a lithography engineer in 1983.

In 1982 Intel launched a recruitment drive to staff its new Fab8 plant – its first factory built outside the United States.

[9] After completing a one-year factory training program in Arizona, she returned to Israel to work as a Manufacturing Area Engineer from 1986 to 1987 and a Fab8 Group Leader from 1988 to 1990 and 1992 to 1993.

[1] She also encouraged women, Arabs, Druze, and Haredi Jews to enter the high-tech sector.

[1] By 2016, approximately 40% of the management positions at the Kiryat Gat plant were held by women, compared to 33% at other Intel factories in Israel.

[10] Fassberg received the Industry Award of the Manufacturers Association of Israel in 2011, and the Hugo Ramniceanu Prize in Economics in 2012.

She also received two Intel Achievement Awards for her contribution to the "inter-die electric material problem resolution".