Semiconductors
10 CFOs in Semiconductors
These ten finance executives currently serve as chief financial officers of semiconductor companies. A reader can learn how semiconductor CFOs approach capital allocation, investor relations, acquisitions and integration, and finance for manufacturing-intensive businesses.
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01—10Alexis Hendrickx
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Dolphin Semiconductor
Chief Financial Officer at Dolphin Semiconductor since September 2025; the profile describes Dolphin as a provider of semiconductor IP solutions. He is also listed as Director of Finance Integration, M&A at Applied Materials since 2023, and earlier was Chief Financial Officer CHRO at ASELTA Nanographics (2020–2023) and WW Group Controller at SICPA (2019–2020).
Brendon Bula
LinkedInExperience: CFO · Substrate
CFO at Substrate since September 2023; the profile describes Substrate as a semiconductor manufacturing company building America's next-generation semiconductor foundry. Before that he worked in Finance & Operations at Palantir Technologies (2021–2023), was VP, Finance Controller at Volta Charging (2019–2021) and held finance roles at Tesla from 2015 to 2019.
Brice Hill
LinkedInExperience: SVP, CFO · Applied Materials
SVP, CFO at Applied Materials since 2022; the profile describes Applied Materials as a semiconductor company offering materials engineering solutions for the semiconductor and flat panel display industries. He was also EVP, CFO at Xilinx (2020–2023) and earlier held finance roles at Intel, including Corporate Vice President, Business Operations Finance (2015–2020).
Dan Durn
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Marvell Technology
Chief Financial Officer at Marvell Technology since June 2026; the profile describes Marvell as a semiconductor company delivering data infrastructure technology for enterprise, cloud, automotive and carrier architectures. He was previously Chief Financial Officer at NXP Semiconductors (2015–2017), Applied Materials (2017–2021) and Adobe (2021–2026).
Desmond Lynch
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Astera Labs
Chief Financial Officer at Astera Labs since March 2026; the profile describes Astera Labs as a semiconductor company providing purpose-built connectivity for rack-scale AI. Before that he was Chief Financial Officer at Rambus (2022–2026), after serving there as Vice President Finance and Investor Relations (2020–2022), and earlier Vice President Finance at IDT - Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (2016–2019).
Dr. Sven Schneider
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Executive Board · Infineon Technologies
Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Executive Board at Infineon Technologies since May 2019. Before that he held finance roles at The Linde Group from 2011 to 2019, including Head of Group Treasury, Interim CFO (2016–2017), Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Executive Board (2017–2019), and briefly Spokesman of the Executive Board and Chief Financial Officer in 2019.
Junaid Ahmed
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Altera
Chief Financial Officer at Altera since July 2026; the profile describes Altera as a semiconductor company offering scalable FPGA solutions for cloud, network and edge applications. Before that he was Corporate Vice President, Corporate Planning at Applied Materials (2022–2026), and he served on customer advisory boards for Anaplan, BlackLine and UiPath between 2019 and 2021.
Ken Rizvi
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer · Synaptics Incorporated
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer at Synaptics Incorporated since July 2024, and its Interim CEO from February to June 2025; the profile describes Synaptics as a semiconductor company. He was previously Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer at SMART Global Holdings (2021–2024), UTAC Group (2018–2021) and Isola Group (2016–2018).
Sam Franklin
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · GlobalFoundries
Chief Financial Officer at GlobalFoundries since December 2025, where the profile says he leads the global finance and operations organization. At GlobalFoundries he previously held VP, Head of Capital Markets, Treasury & Investor Relations (2022–2023), SVP, Investor Relations (2022–2025) and SVP, Finance & Operations (2023–2025), and he was also Senior Vice President - Direct Investments at Mubadala (2021–2023).
Sumeet Gagneja
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Rambus
Chief Financial Officer at Rambus since April 2026; the profile describes Rambus as a semiconductor company that creates chips and silicon IP. Before that he was AI & Data Center Divisional CFO at AMD (2024–2026), SVP, CFO Flash Business at WD (2022–2024) and Chief Financial Officer at Innovium Inc. (2021), which the profile notes was acquired by Marvell Semiconductor.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person to your business model, since finance at a fabless chip or IP company, a foundry and an equipment supplier involves different capital needs. Favor people who have held CFO roles at more than one company if your question is about deals, integration or a leadership transition.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you set capital spending and inventory plans when demand swings through a semiconductor cycle?
- 02How do you explain margin and pricing changes to investors when product mix shifts?
- 03What did you learn about integrating finance teams and systems after a semiconductor acquisition?
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