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TOM WELSH
Owner, Chief Executive
Officer and President
William Thomas (Tom)
Welsh has been a member of the executive
team of Revware since soon after its
founding in 1992 as Design Automation,
Inc. based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Hired as Chief Technology Officer and
Software Development Manager, Tom led
the development of the first instance
of the commercial application of CAD-driven
modeling with integrated digitizers
for the purpose of concept-to-product
engineering. Tom became an owner in
1993 and began serving as Chief Executive
Officer and President starting in 1997.
Under his leadership, Design Automation
was awarded the Deloitte Technology
Fast 50 Award for three consecutive
years. In 2001, the company officially
changed its name to Revware Inc., announcing
the switch from being a reseller of
CAD systems and services to focusing
on the development and distribution
of the company’s proprietary RevWorks®
CAD-driven concept-to-product software.
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led the development of the first
instance of the commercial application
of CAD-driven modeling with integrated
digitizers for the purpose of
concept-to-product engineering. |
In 2008, Tom became
the sole owner of Revware and refocused
the company’s business strategy
from three-dimensional CAD-driven software
offerings to a much wider product portfolio
including manufacture of the MicroScribe®
portable measurement device line, purchased
from Immersion Corporation in 2009.
Under Tom’s leadership, Revware
has had a revenue growth of almost 1000
percent in the past two years.
Before Revware, from 1985 to 1990, Tom
served as President and Chief Executive
Officer of Land Development Laboratory
Inc. (LDL), an innovative corporation
created to develop and patent pre-visualization
technology applied to land development
planning. This technology was the first
commercial application of realistically
integrated video and computer graphics
for which a U.S. patent was granted.
The most visually striking land development
projects in Raleigh and several other
cities along the East Coast were pre-visualized
using the LDL process during this period
of time. For his groundbreaking work,
Tom received the North Carolina Governor’s
Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence.
From 1990-1992 Tom continued this work
under the name New World Graphics.
For
his groundbreaking work, Tom received
the North Carolina Governor’s
Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence.
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Before embarking
on his entrepreneurial efforts, Tom
spent a year while still a graduate
student working as a member of the development
planning team charged by the Research
Triangle Institute with the task of
creating the land development plan for
the southern half of the Research Triangle
Park (RTP) in central North Carolina.
This development plan laid out the design
and implementation guidelines that have
directed the growth of the RTP into
a world-class business destination.
Tom holds a baccalaureate in Architectural
Design from Washington University in
St. Louis and a Master’s of Landscape
Architecture from North Carolina State
University with a concentration in the
application of computer systems for
three-dimensional visualization.
Tom currently resides in Raleigh, North
Carolina, and has one daughter, who
is looking towards the start of her
college experience. Tom is an avid roller
skater, a skating instructor and has
been heavily involved in the resurgence
of grassroots, female-focused entrepreneurial
efforts of local and national flat-track
Roller Derby teams.
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