GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced the addition of Bruce Kleinman as vice president of product marketing. Based at the company's corporate offices in Silicon Valley and reporting to Mike Noonen, executive vice president of worldwide marketing and sales, Kleinman will lead the GLOBALFOUNDRIES product marketing efforts, working with global customers to help develop and define product offerings and customer value propositions.

"GLOBALFOUNDRIES offers several unique value propositions anchored around technology, global capacity, service and flexibility, and our investment of resources globally to support the world's semiconductor and technology companies," said Mike Noonen, executive vice president, worldwide marketing and sales. "Bruce brings more than 25 years of sales, business development, marketing and engineering experience to GLOBALFOUNDRIES and we're excited to welcome him to our growing global team."Prior to joining GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Kleinman served as corporate vice president of platform marketing at Xilinx, where he led product marketing, product planning and technical marketing.

Previous to Xilinx, Kleinman worked as vice president of marketing at Microunity. Kleinman began his career as an engineer with Hewlett Packard and has held senior leadership positions in sales and marketing with Chameleon Systems, Alacritech and Quicklogic.

Kleinman earned a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida.