Tom Caulfield — HoF: For pruning GLOBALFOUNDRIES to profitability and repositioning it to put applications before processes
- Tom brought back customer confidence in GF's sustainability
- Essential in the foundry model, because customer development windows are long and risky
- Pivot resulted in sustainable profitability
- Rationalizing fabs and committing GF to "stay in it's lane" as a manufacturing services company
- The company had been built on an unsustainable dream of being on the bleeding edge
- Even though Tom was the new exec on the job, he was an insider, which makes it even more remarkable