iPRONICS Appoints Christian Dupont as Chief Executive Officer

Sept 12, 2024

Industry expert to lead deep tech startup into next phase of growth and innovation

Valencia, Spain, (12/09/2024) – iPronics, a leading deep tech startup reconfigurable photonics, today announced the appointment of Christian Dupont as its new Chief Executive Officer.

Christian brings over 30 years of experience in high-tech business & developing strategy to iPronics. His appointment comes at a crucial time as the company prepares to launch its first optical switch for AI clusters and datacenter applications. This product is based on software-defined integrated photonics and will enable flexible optical networking while reducing system cost, power consumption & latency.

“We are thrilled to welcome Christian to the iPronics family,” said Dr. Daniel Pérez-López, CTO and cofounder. “His expertise in both business development and scaling up deep tech companies makes him the ideal leader to guide iPronics through its next phase of growth and innovation.”

Prior to joining iPronics, Christian served as Texas Instruments Wireless General Manager in USA & Europe and was CEO of several Optical MEMS startups. Christian Dupont holds a Master of Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

“I am honored to join iPronics at this exciting acceleration phase,” said Christian Dupont. “The potential for optical switching in networking industry is immense with the ever growing demand generated by AI. I look forward to working with our customers and our talented team to contribute to solving the growing data movement challenge within Data Centers.

“We’re delighted to see Christian join iPronics as CEO,” said Amelia Armour, Partner at Amadeus Capital. “His expertise and strategic vision will be key in accelerating iPronics’ mission to transform AI clusters and datacenter landscape.”

About iPronics

iPronics disrupts data center management with a revolutionary optical networking engine. We have pioneered the field of software-defined photonics and present the first integrated optical switch, capable of offering all type of switching strategies and processing, ensuring seamless AI cluster communication, and future-proofing data center infrastructure.