Drew Perkins

Founder & CEO

Serial networking entrepreneur, co-creator of the PPP protocol. Founded Lightera Networks (sold to Ciena for $500M+) and Infinera (IPO, sold to Nokia for $2.3B in 2025).

Overview

Companies
1
Roles
Founder & CEO

Companies

1 company
Eridu $230M
Private Founder & CEO

AI networking infrastructure startup building novel high-radix switch systems and custom silicon to replace traditional tiered network architectures in AI data centers, enabling faster and more efficient AI training and inference.

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