---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-22-001766"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ORA"
cik: "0001296445"
company_name: "ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC."
filed_at: "2022-01-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T14:49:16.537098+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ormat appoints Jessica Woelfel as permanent General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer

## Summary
- Hezi Kattan stepped down as General Counsel on January 24, 2022.
- Jessica Woelfel, previously Interim GC & CCO since March 2021, appointed permanently effective January 25, 2022.
- Woelfel has nearly 20 years of legal experience; prior VP of US Legal at Ormat from Jan 2019 to Mar 2021.
- Woelfel holds a J.D. from UC Hastings and a B.A. from UC Berkeley.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-001766
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ORA
- cik: 0001296445
- company_name: ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-01-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1296445/000143774922001766/0001437749-22-001766-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1296445/000143774922001766/ora20220127_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-001766.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Hezi Kattan departed as General Counsel at ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC..
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: General Counsel
  source text: On January 24, 2022, Ormat Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”), and Hezi Kattan, General Counsel of the Company, agreed that he would step down from his position as General Counsel.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1296445/000143774922001766/0001437749-22-001766-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jessica Woelfel was appointed as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
  source text: Jessica Woelfel, Interim General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of the Company, was appointed to serve permanently as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1296445/000143774922001766/0001437749-22-001766-index.htm

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