John Painter is Senior Director of Facilities Operations for GlobalFoundries Fab 8​ in Malta, New York​. He has 35 years of experience spanning environmental compliance, high purity and ultrapure water treatment systems design and operations, facilities technology development and executive facilities operations leadership​. His experience includes over 7 years in nuclear power operations, 6 years in water treatment equipment and services for hundreds of industrial customers​,​ and 22 years of technical and executive leadership in ​all functions of facilities operations and technology development for two leading edge logic semiconductor companies. John received a BS in Physics from Lipscomb University, an MS in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from Vanderbilt University and is a Registered Professional Engineer.