 He 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.In 2014 under his tenure the Bell Labs Prize was inaugurated to encourage external innovators to collaborate with Bell Labs’ researchers.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.