Millennium Magazine_7th Ed

280 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine SCIENCES, PHARMACEUTICALS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY habitat technologies. The Seadog wave pump maintains its dominant role as number one in the world’s most efficient energy wave technologies. Mr. Welch intends to transform the world’s standard of living into a sustainable direction through eco-friendly technology transfer and sustainable living awareness and practice. An advocate of tidal, wave and water current energies, he is revolutionizing the earth’s infrastructure for the benefit of future generations and the growth of mankind. Mr. Welch received the 1990 Distinguished Leadership Award and 1993 25-Year Achievement Award, as well as named Most Admired Man of the Decade, Man of the Year, 2000 Notable American Men and 5000 Personalities of the World. International Who’s Who gave him the Golden State Award, and IBC gave him the International Order of Merit. Other awards include the Worldwide Who’s Who of Executives and Professionals and Entrepreneur of the Year. A s the founder, chairman, president and CEO of Global Oceanic Designs, Inc., since 2004, Kenneth W. Welch Jr. is the chief inventor and scientist for the development of offshore and underwater habitats for humans to live symbiotic with oceans, lakes and rivers. Focusing on transportation, wave energy projects, alternative energy systems and developing technologies to live on, above or beneath the water, he has also served Seadog Systems, Inc., in the same capacities since 2016. Mr. Welch always held a love for the water and believed that the energy in the ocean’s tides, waves and currents could power the planet. By co-existing with the natural ecosystems in the world’s oceans and rivers, humankind could easily transition to living on, above or beneath the world’s waters while leaving land locked creatures free to roam the lands. Mr. Welch invented the Seadog wave pump (dam free wave driven hydroelectric power/ freshwater desalination), and holds several other patents in alternative energies along with offshore submarine, platform and eco-friendly KENNETH W. WELCH JR. CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Global Oceanic Designs, Inc. Willis, TX