Thomas Caulfield博士

Board member since 2018
Dr. Thomas Caulfield is the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GF. He was named CEO and elected to the board of directors in March 2018 and led the company’s initial public offering in October 2021, which was the largest semiconductor IPO on the Nasdaq that year. He joined GF in May 2014 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the company’s Fab 8 semiconductor wafer manufacturing facility in Malta, NY. Dr. Caulfield led operations, process development, and the expansion and ramp-up of semiconductor manufacturing production. He has an extensive career spanning engineering, executive management and global operational leadership with leading technology companies.

在加入GF之前，Caulfield博士于2012年5月至2014年5月在Soraa公司担任总裁兼首席运营官（COO），该公司是世界领先的GaNTM（氮化镓上的氮化镓）固态照明技术开发商。在Soraa之前，Caulfield博士于2009年至2010年担任Ausra的总裁兼首席运营官，Ausra是一家为发电和工业蒸汽生产提供大规模集中式太阳能解决方案的领先供应商。在领导Ausra公司之前，Caulfield博士在Novellus系统公司担任销售、营销和客户服务的执行副总裁。在此之前，Caulfield博士在IBM工作了17年，担任各种高级领导职务，最终担任IBM微电子部门300毫米半导体业务副总裁，领导其在纽约州东菲什基尔的晶圆制造和研发业务。

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.