Deep expertise. Singular focus. The algebra is right. The team knows how to bring it to market.
Aterna World exists to end silicon dependency.
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Khalid Al-Abbad is the strategic architect of Aterna’s sovereign silicon mission. A seasoned executive with deep roots in Saudi Arabia’s technology and capital ecosystem, Dr. Al-Abbad brings two decades of experience bridging international deep-technology ventures with Kingdom-level strategic priorities.
Prior to founding Aterna, Dr. Al-Abbad held senior advisory and executive roles across technology investment, national infrastructure development, and strategic partnership structures in the Gulf region. His experience spans both the capital formation side — working with sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and institutional investors — and the operational side, having led complex multi-stakeholder technology programs from concept through deployment.
Dr. Al-Abbad identified the FIL framework’s strategic potential at an early stage and assembled the technical and commercial team to bring it to sovereign deployment. His role is to translate a fundamental mathematical innovation into a program that serves the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 objectives, secures international partnerships, and delivers hardware that sovereign governments can trust.
He is based in Riyadh, Kingdom OF Saudi Arabia.
Focus: Strategic vision · Capital formation · Government & sovereign partner engagement · Vision 2030 alignment · Regional technology policy
Chief Technology Officer
Michael Doran is the inventor of the Fractal Information Logic framework and the principal architect of Aterna’s technology stack. With over 20 years of experience in high-technology systems development and applied cryptography, he brings both the theoretical depth to originate a post-binary compute paradigm and the engineering discipline to reduce it to manufacturable silicon.
Before Aterna, Michael built and led technology ventures across defence electronics, embedded systems, and cryptographic hardware — environments where correctness, security, and performance are simultaneously non-negotiable. He has worked with government and defence clients across multiple jurisdictions, giving him firsthand experience of the security and sovereignty requirements that Aterna’s hardware is designed to satisfy.
The FIL framework emerged from Michael’s decade-long investigation into the mathematical inefficiency of binary logic — a conviction that the 0/1 paradigm was not a physical constraint but an inherited assumption. He translated that conviction into a body of work now protected by 14 patents and validated through FPGA benchmark data and independent power measurement.
At Aterna, Michael leads the technical program: FIL/GLU architecture development, RTL design, eABI engineering, the ASIC roadmap, and technical engagement with sovereign partner security and engineering teams.
Focus: FIL framework · GLU architecture · RTL design · eABI · ASIC roadmap · Post-quantum security · Technical partner engagement
Aterna’s core research and engineering function is a concentrated cohort of specialists recruited specifically for the FIL program.
PhD-level researchers with expertise in Lie group theory, algebraic topology, and formal logic, responsible for the mathematical foundations of FIL and the ongoing development of the algebraic framework.
Silicon architects experienced in custom logic design, formal verification, FPGA implementation, and ASIC tape-out processes, responsible for translating FIL mathematics into manufacturable hardware.
Specialists in post-quantum cryptography, hardware security architecture, and side-channel analysis, responsible for ensuring that Aterna hardware meets the security requirements of sovereign and critical infrastructure deployments.
Engineers responsible for the eABI layer, host software integration, and deployment tooling — ensuring that Aterna hardware is operationally practical for the organisations that will deploy it.
The team operates under a culture of rigor, precision, and accountability. Every claim Aterna makes about its hardware is supported by documented benchmark data, and every benchmark methodology is available for review by qualified technical partners.