Globalfoundries Inc
Officers & Directors
Dr. Thomas Caulfield is the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GF and was elected to the board of directors in March 2018. Dr. Caulfield joined the Company in May 2014 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the company's Fab 8 semiconductor wafer manufacturing facility in Malta, NY, where he led operations, expansion and the ramp-up of semiconductor manufacturing production, and the process development organization. Dr. Caulfield has an extensive career spanning engineering, executive management and global operational leadership with leading technology companies. Prior to joining GF, Dr. Caulfield served as President and Chief Operations Officer (COO) at Soraa from May 2012 to May 2014, the world's leading developer of GaN on GaNTM (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) solid-state lighting technology. Before Soraa, Dr. Caulfield served as President and COO of Ausra from 2009 to 2010, a leading provider of large-scale concentrated solar power solutions for electrical power generation and industrial steam production. Prior to leading at Ausra, Dr. Caulfield served as Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Customer Service at Novellus Systems, Inc. Before that, Dr. Caulfield spent 17 years at IBM in a variety of senior leadership roles, ultimately serving as Vice President of 300mm semiconductor operations for IBM's Microelectronics division, leading its wafer fabrication and R&D operations in East Fishkill, NY. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors for Western Digital Corporation. Dr. Caulfield earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from St. Lawrence University before entering Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, where he earned both his Bachelor and Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering as well as a Doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Caulfield was also a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia's Engineering Center for Strategic Materials.
David Reeder is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of GF, responsible for the Company's financial strategy and leading the global financial, information technology, supply chain and procurement organizations. He joined GF in August 2020 and has extensive experience in the semiconductor industry and other fields. Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer for Tower Hill Insurance Group from 2017 to 2020. Prior to that, he was President and CEO for Lexmark International, Inc. from 2015 to 2017. Earlier in his career, Mr. Reeder was CFO at Electronics for Imaging from 2014 to 2015 and Cisco's Enterprise Networking Division from 2012 to 2014, and held executive positions at Broadcom and Texas Instruments. Mr. Reeder currently serves as a member of the board of directors of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Arkansas and a Master of Business Administration degree from Southern Methodist University.
Kay Chai (KC) Ang is Senior Vice President of Global Fab Operations for GF since October 2020. Mr. Ang joined GF in July 2009 and has served in a variety of senior leadership roles for the Company including head of all of our Singapore operations from 2012 to 2020 and as head of the Fab 1 manufacturing facility, customer engineering and corporate quality organizations. Mr. Ang has more than 30 years of foundry industry experience with a proven track record in manufacturing operations, fab start-up, and technology transfer. Prior to joining the company, he held senior leadership positions at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing from 1988 to 2009, including Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing with responsibility for global sales, marketing, services, customer support and regional business operations, and Senior Vice President of Fab Operations, with responsibility for manufacturing strategy and operational excellence. He is also the SEMI Southeast Asia Regional Advisory Chairman and the Board Advisor to Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association. Mr. Ang holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University and a master's degree in Engineering from University of Texas.
Saam Azar is Chief Legal Officer for GF since January 2017. He oversees all legal, compliance, government relations, strategic transactions and M&A matters worldwide. Mr. Azar also serves as Secretary to the GF board of directors and has been involved with the company since its founding in 2009. From 2006 to 2017, Mr. Azar has also served in various roles for GF's majority shareholder, Mubadala Investment Company, as a senior member of the Legal & Compliance Unit, working primarily on complex, cross border partnerships. Prior to Mubadala, he worked as a corporate associate at the international law firm of Cleary Gottlieb in New York, where he supported numerous corporate transactions with an emphasis on debt and equity capital markets. Mr. Azar holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke University.
Juan Cordovez is Senior Vice President of Global Sales for GF since July 2019, leading client-facing functions including sales, commercial operations, field applications and customer engineering. Prior to his current role, Mr. Cordovez led GF's EMEA and later APAC sales from 2016 to 2019. Prior to that, Mr. Cordovez led GF's Customer Design Enablement Team including the PDK, device modeling and field applications engineering teams from 2013 to 2016. Prior to joining GF, Mr. Cordovez was founder and Vice President of Sentinel IC Technologies from 2008 to 2013 and Manager of Design Enablement at Jazz Semiconductor from 2002 to 2008. He holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Irvine.
Emily Reilly is Senior Vice President of Human Resources at GF since March 2018 and has worldwide responsibility for all aspects of strategic human resources including talent and leadership development, delivering world-class people solutions, shaping the company's culture and creating an environment of diversity, inclusion and belonging within GF. A member of GF's original startup team, she joined the Company in 2009 and has been instrumental in GF's growth into a thriving, global organization of approximately 14,600 employees. Prior to joining GF, she worked in several roles as an engineer with GE Advanced Materials and Momentive Performance Materials, and held leadership roles at GE in both engineering and human resources. Ms. Reilly serves on the Women's Leadership Council of the Global Semiconductor Association (GSA), providing inspiration and sponsorship for the next generation of women leaders. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.
Globalfoundries Inc currently has 1600 employees.
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