Hello! I am Dave Welch, the co-founder and CEO of AttoTude.

AI is already supercharging changes across our world. However, its exponential growth comes at the cost of the enormous energy needed to fuel massive data center complexes.

Over the past four decades, I have witnessed incredible innovations in the telecommunications space. As recently as the 1990s, the highest bandwidth event was Mother’s Day. Today, the highest bandwidth events are no longer human interactions but the constant, data-rich communications between machines that power our society.

My team and I identified an opportunity to radically innovate interconnection technologies for data centers.

The technology we are developing will drastically reduce the amount of energy needed to interconnect the AI apparatus at the heart of the data centers while meeting the scaling required for bandwidth and reliability, further expanding the ability to cluster the AI infrastructure at a lower cost.

Our vision at AttoTude is to reduce the burden data centers have on our power grid so that innovation can be limitless.

Dave Welch

Founder & CEO

Dave's Bio:

David F. Welch, Ph.D., founder and CEO of AttoTude, has over forty years of experience in the fiber optics and optical communications industries both in technology development and strategy, and as a business leader, including corporate management from initial start-up through a public company with multi-billion dollar revenues.  From 1985 to 2001, he was at SDL (formerly Spectra Diode Laboratories) as CTO and VP of Corporate Development, where he successfully established a differentiated technology and product strategy, resulting in the merger with JDS Uniphase.  In 2001, he co-founded Infinera. As founder/CTO/President, he was responsible for establishing the key differentiating technology, photonic integrated circuits, and the implementation into a series of network-managed product lines.  The success of the technology has positioned Infinera as the leader in optical communications.  Most recently, Dave founded AttoTude, which is aligned with highly differentiated technology that addresses power, cost, and scale issues in data center networking applications.

He holds over 200 patents and has authored over 300 technical publications. In recognition of his technical contributions, he has been awarded the OSA’s Adolph Lomb Medal, Joseph Fraunhofer Award and John Tyndall Award, the IET’s JJ Thompson Medal for Achievement in Electronics, and the IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial Leadership Award. He is a Fellow of the OSA and the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Welch holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

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