Daniel Durn is the chief financial officer and executive vice president of finance and administration for GLOBALFOUNDRIES, joining the company in 2011. He is responsible for the company's overall financial management, reporting and strategy, and financial analysis functions.
Durn has a distinguished career in the financial world. Prior to joining GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Durn served as executive director of the investment and strategy unit of GLOBALFOUNDRIES' shareholder, the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC).
Prior to joining ATIC, Durn was an investment banker and a member of the merger leadership group at Goldman Sachs. He has extensive merger and acquisition deal experience in a variety of technology-related sectors including semiconductors, electronic manufacturing services, IT services, and software. At Goldman Sachs, Durn played a critical role advising the government of Abu Dhabi in its acquisition of AMD's manufacturing assets to create GLOBALFOUNDRIES, and led the team that negotiated the acquisition of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing by ATIC.
Durn was also responsible for a number of other semiconductor transactions including the sale of Artisan Components to ARM Holdings, sale of Avago to Silver Lake / KKR consortium, Agilent's IPO divestiture of Verigy, acquisition of PortalPlayer by Nvidia, sale of Agere to LSI Logic, sale of Genesis Micro to ST Micro, and the sale of AMI Semiconductor to ON Semiconductor.
Before joining Goldman Sachs, Durn spent over six years as an officer in the United States Navy. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and an MBA from Columbia University.
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