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Joel Smejkal was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer and elected to the Vishay Board and to the Executive Committee, effective January 1, 2023. Mr. Smejkal has held various positions of increasing responsibility since joining Vishay in 1990 including Executive Vice President - Corporate Business Development (2020 - 2022), Executive Vice President and Business Head Passive Components (2017 - 2020) and Senior Vice President Global Distribution Sales (2012 - 2016). Mr. Smejkal's experience with Vishay includes worldwide and divisional leadership roles in engineering, marketing, operations and sales. He was a product developer of 18 U.S. Patents for the Power Metal Strip resistor technology.

Marc Zandman is Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Business Development Officer, and President of Vishay Israel Ltd. Mr. Zandman has been President of Vishay Israel Ltd. since 1998 and a Director of Vishay since 2001. Mr. Zandman was Vice Chairman of the Board from 2003 to June 2011, Chief Administration Officer from 2007 to June 2011, and Group Vice President of Vishay Measurements Group from 2002 to 2004. Mr. Zandman has served in various other capacities with Vishay since 1984. Mr. Zandman served on the Board of Directors of Vishay Precision Group (VPG) since the spin-off from Vishay on July 6, 2010, including as the non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors from 2010 to 2022, until his resignation from the VPG board of directors on May 21, 2025. He is the son of the late Dr. Felix Zandman, founder and Vishay's former Executive Chairman.

Roy Shoshani was appointed Executive Vice President - Chief Operating Officer - Semiconductors and Chief Technical Officer effective January 13, 2025. Mr. Shoshani has held various positions of increasing responsibility since joining Vishay in 2004, including Executive Vice President - Chief Technical Officer (2023-2025), Deputy to the Chief Technical Officer (2021-2022), Vice President Integrated Circuits Division (2009-2022), and Vice President R&D - Semiconductors (2020-2021). Prior to joining Vishay, Mr. Shoshani worked for Harmonic. Mr. Shoshani's experience with Vishay includes divisional leadership roles in R&D, marketing, business development and operations. Roy Shoshani is the brother of former director Ziv Shoshani and is a nephew of director Ruta Zandman.

David McConnell was appointed Executive Vice President - Chief Financial Officer effective March 1, 2024. Mr. McConnell has held various positions of increasing responsibility since joining Vishay in 1992, including Senior Vice President - Corporate Treasurer and Risk Management since January 2016, and responsibility for corporate treasury since 2011. Mr. McConnell's experience includes numerous roles in corporate, regional, and divisional finance. Prior to joining Vishay, Mr. McConnell worked at Ernst & Young LLP serving large, multinational clients in various industries. Mr. McConnell is a Certified Public Accountant in Pennsylvania.

Peter Henrici was appointed Executive Vice President - Corporate Development effective January 1, 2023 and has served as Corporate Secretary since 2012. Mr. Henrici has held various positions in marketing communications, investor relations, and corporate treasury departments since joining Vishay in 1998. Mr. Henrici has been responsible for corporate communications at the Company since 2005.

Ruta Zandman is a private stockholder and the wife of the late Dr. Felix Zandman, Vishay's founder and former Executive Chairman. Mrs. Zandman has sole or shared voting power over approximately 44.3% of the Company's total voting power, for which it is deemed appropriate that she serve as a member of the Company's Board. Mrs. Zandman was employed by Vishay as a public relations associate from 1993 to May 2011, and usually accompanied Dr. Zandman as a representative of Vishay.

John Malvisi retired in 2021 as a senior partner in Deloitte & Touche LLP's audit practice with more than 35 years of client service experience. During his career, Mr. Malvisi managed several of Deloitte's largest audit clients in the media & entertainment, and consumer products industries. He also spent several years in the firm's Merger & Acquisition Services Group and National Office. Mr. Malvisi worked in Deloitte's National Office Assurance Insights & Analysis Group and Accounting Research Group, where his responsibilities included quality and risk control and consultation on a wide range of accounting and financial reporting issues. He is a graduate of Fordham University, where he received an MBA in public accounting. Mr. Malvisi also served on the Board of Trustees for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York from 2008 through 2022, including its Audit Committee.

Dr. Abraham Ludomirski is the founder and, for more than the past five years, managing director of Vitalife Fund, a venture capital company specializing in high-tech electronic medical devices. He serves on the board of directors of POCARED Diagnostics, Ltd., Newpace Ltd., Sensible Medical Innovations Ltd., and Trig Medical, as well as serving as the Chairman of the Board of ENDOSPAN Ltd. and Endoran. He also serves as CEO of Illumigyn. He previously served on the board of Recro Pharma, Inc. and DIR Technologies. Dr. Ludomirski earned his M.D. at the Sackler Tel-Aviv University Medical School, specializing in OBGYN and completed his fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in maternal fetal medicine.

Michael J. Cody was, from 2009 until his retirement in 2017, Vice President of Corporate Development at Raytheon Company, a technology company specializing in defense, civil government and cybersecurity solutions. At Raytheon, Mr. Cody was responsible for overseeing all merger and acquisition activity, where he executed 18 transactions aggregating in excess of $4.3 billion in transaction value. From 2007 to 2009, Mr. Cody was a founding partner of Meadowood Capital LLC, a private equity firm focused on technology companies. From 1997 to 2007, Mr. Cody was Vice President of Corporate Development at EMC Corporation, a developer and provider of information infrastructure technology. Mr. Cody has previously served on the boards of Safeguard Scientific, Inc., a NYSE listed private equity and venture capital firm; and MTI Ltd., a private company in the UK specializing in cloud, security, and infrastructure.

Raanan Zilberman was Chief Executive Officer of Caesarstone Ltd., a NASDAQ-listed multinational manufacturer of high quality engineered quartz surfaces with operations in the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., and Israel, from February 2017 to March 2018. Prior to that, from 2008 to 2016, Mr. Zilberman served as Chief Executive Officer of Eden Springs, a Swiss-based leading provider of water and coffee services to European workplaces with production facilities and subsidiaries in 18 European countries that was formed by a series of acquisitions that Mr. Zilberman led. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Zilberman was Chief Executive Officer of Danone Springs, a joint venture between Danone, a multinational food manufacturer, and Eden Springs, with a European-wide water production and distribution footprint. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Zilberman served as Chief Executive Officer of Tedea Huntleigh, a company listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange engaged in the production and marketing of electromechanical sensors. Tedea Huntleigh was acquired by Vishay in 2002, and from 2002 to 2004, Mr. Zilberman was President of Vishay's transducers business, which was formed from a series of five acquisitions. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Zilberman served as Chief Operating Officer of Tadiran Appliances, a manufacturer of air conditioners and refrigerators and a subsidiary of Carrier Global.

Dr. Renee B. Booth has served since 1999 as President of Leadership Solutions, Inc., a boutique human resources consulting firm specializing in leadership assessment, selection, development and motivation. Prior to founding Leadership Solutions, Inc., Dr. Booth was the Eastern Regional Practice Leader for the Human Capital Group of Watson Wyatt Worldwide. Dr. Booth also served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Human Resources of financial services company ADVANTA Corporation, and spent more than a decade in senior positions with Hay Management Consultants. Dr. Booth is a Board of Trustee member at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia where she serves on the Executive Committee and as Chair of the Education Committee and was past Chair of the Compensation Committee. She previously served as a Board member of Kenexa, a human capital solutions provider, which was acquired by IBM and where she was Chair of the Compensation Committee. Dr. Booth received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Maryland and a M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from the Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Michiko Kurahashi has served since 2020 as an adjunct professor at New York University educating executives, graduate students, and undergraduates in the current trends in marketing, communications, public relations, and digital marketing technology applicable to a wide range of businesses and industries. From 2016 to 2020, Dr. Kurahashi was Chief Marketing Officer at AXIS Capital (NYSE: AXS), a global commercial insurer and reinsurer. In that role, Dr. Kurahashi launched the firm's new One AXIS brand, implemented AI-driven marketing initiatives and streamlined marketing processes. Prior to that, Dr. Kurahashi was Head of Marketing at CIT Bank, an online bank, and held senior marketing and communication positions at global financial institutions including UBS AG and HSBC Private Bank. Throughout her career, Dr. Kurahashi has won numerous industry awards for her work. Dr. Kurahashi received a B.A. in sociology from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor; a M.A. in social stratification theory and a Ph.D. in quantitative research, labor markets from Cornell University.

Mr. Michael O'Sullivan was appointed Executive Vice President Chief Administrative and Legal Officer effective January 1, 2024. Mr. O'Sullivan previously served as Corporate General Counsel since joining the Company in 2012. In July 2016, Mr. O'Sullivan was appointed Regional Country Manager - The Americas. Prior to joining Vishay, Mr. O'Sullivan worked as an in-house corporate attorney for a subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc., and in private practice at DLA Piper.

On February 27, 2024, Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.'s Board of Directors appointed David L. Tomlinson to the newly created role of Senior Vice President - Chief Accounting Officer (principal accounting officer), each effective March 1, 2024.Mr. Tomlinson, 49, has held various positions of increasing responsibility since joining Vishay in 2003, including Senior Vice President - Corporate Controller since November 2009. Prior to joining Vishay, Mr. Tomlinson was an audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP serving large, multinational clients in various industries. Mr. Tomlinson is a Certified Public Accountant in Pennsylvania.