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Home  »  Business News  »  GlobalFoundries Takes On IBM Talent As Hiring Grows, Plans To Buy IBM Die Out
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GlobalFoundries Takes On IBM Talent As Hiring Grows, Plans To Buy IBM Die Out

Posted onAugust 7, 2014

GlobalFoundries has been involved in
a hiring spurt over the last month or so,
among them being five executives from
IBM.

Rumors circulated early in the year
that GlobalFoundries was trying to
purchase the microchip manufacturing
branch of IBM, involving facilities in Burlington,
Vt., and Poughkeepsie. Several
media reports have now said that sale is
not going to happen.

But GlobalFoundries has hired IBM
talent to help ramp up its operations at
the Malta plant, called Fab 8.

The hires, announced by Tom Caulfield,
Global’s senior vice president and
general manager of Fab 8, (a former IBM
executive) include Mark Dougherty, who
comes from the East Fishkill site where
he worked on unit process development;
George Jordhamo, who worked on radio
frequency and silicon germanium chip
specialty products; and Debra Leach
Riell, who has been director of IBM’s microelectronics
production procurement.

“Mark, George and Deb are three of
the best semiconductor technology and
manufacturing leaders in the industry,
and we are excited to welcome these
dynamic and respected industry veterans
to our expanding team,” said Caulfield.

A few weeks earlier, the semiconductor
manufacturing technology plant in
Malta appointed Henry “Hank” DeMarco
as vice president, site construction and
facilities for Fab 8, and John Painter as
senior director, facilities, for Fab 8.

“Hank and John are proven and respected
industry leaders with extensive
semiconductor technology and manufacturing
experience, and we are excited
to add both gentlemen to our expanding
team,” Caufield said.

DiMarco built his career at IBM, where
he held a number of engineering and
leadership positions in locations around
the globe. He will have responsibility
for all Fab 8 site construction and infrastructure
strategy and execution as well
as facilities projects and operations.

DiMarco joined GlobalFoundries from
FALA Technologies in Kingston. From
2000 to 2013, DiMarco served as senior
location executive for the IBM East Fishkill
campus where he was responsible for
the design, construction and facilities
operations for the IBM 300mm fab. He
led the day-to-day facilities operations
including site chemical, environmental,
energy and maintenance operations processes
and ran the manufacturing operations
for advanced ceramic packaging.

He holds a bachelor’s of science degree
in computer engineering from Clarkson
University.

Painter will lead all day-to-day facilities
operations supporting the Fab 8
campus reporting to DiMarco. He joins
GlobalFoundries from Intel in Hillsboro,
Ore., where he most recently had site
management responsibilities for facilities
technology development engineering,
EHS & S and site services, providing
24/7 operations and maintenance for the
Oregon campus.

From 1996 to 2010, Painter held numerous,
progressive leadership positions
in facilities, operations, engineering and
EHS with Intel in New Mexico. He held a
technical sales manager role with Ecolochem
in Norfolk, Va., and leadership
roles with Duke Power Co. as a nuclear
production engineer in Charlotte, N.C.
GlobalFoundries also posted prominent employment ads in Burlington and
Poughkeepsie where key IBM plants are
located.

An advertisement in Poughkeepsie
Journal from GlobalFoundries sought
Hudson Valley residents to apply for positions
in areas described as “equipment
engineering” and “process engineering,”
as well as maintenance and finance.

A similar ads ran in the Burlington
Free Press to announce the company
is hiring technicians and maintenance
workers at its semiconductor plant in
Malta, Saratoga County, known as Fab 8.

Officials at the Malta plant said there
are approximately 2,400 direct jobs at
Fab 8 and GlobalFoundries expects to
add perhaps as many as 600 more through
the end of the year.

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