Marcus Weldon was born on 25 July 1968 and was the 13th President of Bell Labs.
10 Facts About Marcus Weldon
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Marcus Weldon served as the Corporate Chief Technology Officer of Nokia.
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Marcus Weldon graduated with First Class honours in 1990, and was accepted to the Ph.
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Marcus Weldon was awarded the Nottingham Prize for his thesis work.
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Marcus Weldon studied the surface oxidation of silicon and the science of wafer bonding and splitting by hydrogen implantation, winning multiple awards for his work.
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Marcus Weldon was offered a position as a Member of Technical Staff in the Materials Research laboratory run by Alastair Glass, working for Mark Cardillo to study the microscopic physics and chemistry of sol-gel.
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Marcus Weldon assumed the role of CTO for Nokia following its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent in 2016.
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Marcus Weldon has focused on the rejuvenation of Bell Labs and a return to its pre-eminence by the invention of foundational networking technologies and systems for the 'cloud networking' era, via 10x game-changing research and so-called 'FutureX' projects.
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Marcus Weldon was named as one of Global Telecoms Business Power 100 in 2014, and one of Global Telecoms Business 50 CTOs to watch in 2015.
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Marcus Weldon is married to Cherie Weldon and has five children.