Tom Caulfield
Thomas Caulfield was elected to the board of directors of GlobalFoundries as executive chairman in April 2025 and has served as a board member since March 2018. Caulfield was previously president and CEO of GF. He was named CEO in 2018 and led the company’s initial public offering in October 2021. He joined GF in May 2014 as SVP and GM of the company’s Fab 8 semiconductor wafer manufacturing facility in Malta, New York, leading operations, process development, and the expansion and ramp-up of semiconductor manufacturing production. He has an extensive career spanning over 30 years of engineering, executive management and global operational leadership with leading technology companies.
Prior to joining GF, Caulfield served from May 2012 to May 2014 as president and chief operations officer at Soraa, the world’s leading developer of GaN on GaNTM (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) solid-state lighting technology. Before Soraa, Caulfield served as president and COO of Ausra, a leading provider of large-scale concentrated solar power solutions for electrical power generation and industrial steam production. Prior to leading at Ausra, Caulfield served as executive vice president of sales, marketing and customer service at Novellus Systems, Inc. Before that, 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, New York.
He currently serves as a member of the board of directors for Sandisk Corporation (following its spinoff from Western Digital). In May 2025, Caulfield was awarded the prestigious Thomas Egleston Medal by Columbia University, honoring his distinguished leadership and groundbreaking contributions to engineering innovation in the semiconductor industry. 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 a bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate in materials science and engineering. Caulfield was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia’s Engineering Center for Strategic Materials.