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It says that before co-founding Quantum Brilliance he led commercialization and venture investments at CSIRO ON, Global Private Capital at QIC, and Credit Suisse Asia’s technology banking sector, and that he later moved from investment banking and venture capital into founding.", "sources": [ { "label": "Quantum Brilliance — About", "url": "https://quantumbrilliance.com/about-us/" } ] }, { "id": "michael-biercuk", "name": "Michael J. Biercuk", "roles": [ { "title": "Founder and Chief Executive Officer", "companyId": "q-ctrl" } ], "bio": "Q-CTRL’s about page lists Michael J. Biercuk as founder and chief executive officer.", "sources": [ { "label": "Q-CTRL — About", "url": "https://q-ctrl.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "alan-baratz", "name": "Alan Baratz", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Executive Officer", "companyId": "d-wave" } ], "bio": "D-Wave’s leadership page lists Dr. Alan Baratz as chief executive officer and says he became CEO in 2020. It says that before that, as executive vice president of R&D and chief product officer, he drove development, delivery, and support of D-Wave’s products. The same page says he has more than 25 years in product development and was the first president of JavaSoft at Sun Microsystems.", "sources": [ { "label": "D-Wave — Leadership", "url": "https://www.dwavequantum.com/company/leadership" } ] }, { "id": "victor-peng", "name": "Victor Peng", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Executive Officer", "companyId": "psiquantum" } ], "bio": "PsiQuantum’s about page lists Victor Peng as chief executive officer.", "sources": [ { "label": "PsiQuantum — About", "url": "https://www.psiquantum.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "jeremy-obrien", "name": "Jeremy O’Brien", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder and Executive Chairman", "companyId": "psiquantum" } ], "bio": "PsiQuantum’s about page lists Prof. Jeremy O’Brien as co-founder and executive chairman.", "sources": [ { "label": "PsiQuantum — About", "url": "https://www.psiquantum.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "terry-rudolph", "name": "Terry Rudolph", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder and Chief Architect", "companyId": "psiquantum" } ], "bio": "PsiQuantum’s about page lists Prof. Terry Rudolph as co-founder and chief architect.", "sources": [ { "label": "PsiQuantum — About", "url": "https://www.psiquantum.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "pete-shadbolt", "name": "Pete Shadbolt", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer", "companyId": "psiquantum" } ], "bio": "PsiQuantum’s about page lists Dr. Pete Shadbolt as co-founder and chief scientific officer.", "sources": [ { "label": "PsiQuantum — About", "url": "https://www.psiquantum.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "mark-thompson", "name": "Mark Thompson", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer", "companyId": "psiquantum" } ], "bio": "PsiQuantum’s about page lists Prof. Mark Thompson as co-founder and chief technology officer.", "sources": [ { "label": "PsiQuantum — About", "url": "https://www.psiquantum.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "subodh-kulkarni", "name": "Subodh Kulkarni", "roles": [ { "title": "President and Chief Executive Officer", "companyId": "rigetti" } ], "bio": "Rigetti’s about page says Dr. Subodh Kulkarni has been president and chief executive officer since December 2022, and lists him as a director. It describes him as a public-company CEO with more than thirty years in the semiconductor industry. Before Rigetti, the page says, he was president, CEO, and a board member of CyberOptics, which makes high-precision sensors and inspection systems.", "sources": [ { "label": "Rigetti — About", "url": "https://www.rigetti.com/about-rigetti-computing" } ] }, { "id": "niccolo-de-masi", "name": "Niccolo de Masi", "roles": [ { "title": "Chairman and CEO", "companyId": "ionq" } ], "bio": "IonQ’s company page lists Niccolo de Masi as chairman and CEO.", "sources": [ { "label": "IonQ — Company", "url": "https://ionq.com/company" } ] }, { "id": "chris-monroe", "name": "Chris Monroe", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder; Chief Scientific Advisor", "companyId": "ionq" } ], "bio": "IonQ’s company page says the company was founded in 2015 by Dr. Chris Monroe and Dr. Jungsang Kim, and lists Christopher Monroe as chief scientific advisor.", "sources": [ { "label": "IonQ — Company", "url": "https://ionq.com/company" } ] }, { "id": "jungsang-kim", "name": "Jungsang Kim", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder", "companyId": "ionq" } ], "bio": "IonQ’s company page says the company was founded in 2015 by Dr. Chris Monroe and Dr. Jungsang Kim. The page does not give him a separate current operating title.", "sources": [ { "label": "IonQ — Company", "url": "https://ionq.com/company" } ] }, { "id": "christopher-ballance", "name": "Christopher Ballance", "roles": [ { "title": "President, Quantum Computing", "companyId": "ionq" }, { "title": "Co-founder and CEO", "companyId": "oxford-ionics" } ], "bio": "IonQ’s company page lists Christopher Ballance as president, quantum computing. Oxford Ionics’ about page still lists Dr Chris Ballance as co-founder and CEO. This record does not choose between those two pages.", "sources": [ { "label": "IonQ — Company", "url": "https://ionq.com/company" }, { "label": "Oxford Ionics — About", "url": "https://www.oxionics.com/about-us/" } ] }, { "id": "michelle-simmons", "name": "Michelle Simmons", "roles": [ { "title": "Founder and CEO", "companyId": "sqc" } ], "bio": "Silicon Quantum Computing’s about page lists Professor Michelle Simmons as founder and CEO. It calls her a physicist and materials scientist known for atomic electronics, and says that over 25 years she developed a process for manufacturing in silicon at atomic scale, including what the page calls the first single-atom transistor and the first integrated circuit made with atomic precision.", "sources": [ { "label": "Silicon Quantum Computing — About", "url": "https://sqc.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "simon-segars", "name": "Simon Segars", "roles": [ { "title": "Chair", "companyId": "sqc" } ], "bio": "Silicon Quantum Computing’s about page lists Simon Segars as chair.", "sources": [ { "label": "Silicon Quantum Computing — About", "url": "https://sqc.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "stephanie-simmons", "name": "Stephanie Simmons", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder and Chief Quantum Officer", "companyId": "photonic-inc" } ], "bio": "Photonic’s about page lists Dr. Stephanie Simmons as co-founder and chief quantum officer.", "sources": [ { "label": "Photonic — About", "url": "https://photonic.com/about-us" } ] }, { "id": "don-mattrick", "name": "Don Mattrick", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chair", "companyId": "photonic-inc" } ], "bio": "Photonic’s about page lists Don Mattrick as chief executive officer and vice chair.", "sources": [ { "label": "Photonic — About", "url": "https://photonic.com/about-us" } ] }, { "id": "andrew-dzurak", "name": "Andrew Dzurak", "roles": [ { "title": "CEO and Founder", "companyId": "diraq" } ], "bio": "Diraq’s about page lists Andrew Dzurak as CEO and founder, and says he drives corporate strategy and the company’s silicon-based quantum technology. It also describes him as a quantum physicist and engineer with a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a long research record at UNSW.", "sources": [ { "label": "Diraq — About", "url": "https://www.diraq.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "raj-hazra", "name": "Rajeeb (Raj) Hazra", "roles": [ { "title": "President, Chief Executive Officer and Director", "companyId": "quantinuum" } ], "bio": "Quantinuum’s about page lists Dr. Rajeeb “Raj” Hazra as president, chief executive officer, and director. It says he has more than three decades in supercomputing, quantum, and technical roles. Before Quantinuum, the page says, he was general manager of the compute and networking business at Micron and spent 25 years at Intel, including enterprise and government, technical computing, and systems research roles.", "sources": [ { "label": "Quantinuum — About", "url": "https://www.quantinuum.com/company/about" } ] }, { "id": "ben-bloom", "name": "Ben Bloom", "roles": [ { "title": "CEO and Founder", "companyId": "atom-computing" } ], "bio": "Atom Computing’s about page lists Ben Bloom, PhD, as chief executive officer and founder. It says he leads work on logical qubits, fault-tolerant computing, and neutral-atom systems, and that he founded the company in January 2018. The page says he holds a bachelor’s degree from MIT and a PhD in physics from the University of Colorado Boulder.", "sources": [ { "label": "Atom Computing — About", "url": "https://atom-computing.com/about-us/" } ] }, { "id": "itamar-sivan", "name": "Itamar Sivan", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder and CEO", "companyId": "quantum-machines" } ], "bio": "Quantum Machines’ about page lists Dr. Itamar Sivan as co-founder and CEO.", "sources": [ { "label": "Quantum Machines — About", "url": "https://www.quantum-machines.co/about" } ] }, { "id": "joe-fitzsimons", "name": "Joe Fitzsimons", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Executive Officer", "companyId": "horizon-quantum" } ], "bio": "Horizon Quantum’s company page lists Dr. Joe Fitzsimons as chief executive officer. It says he founded the company in 2018 after leaving a tenured post at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, to build software infrastructure for practical quantum computing. The same page says operations began in Singapore in 2019 and that a Dublin office opened in 2023.", "sources": [ { "label": "Horizon Quantum — Company", "url": "https://www.horizonquantum.com/company" } ] }, { "id": "mikhail-lukin", "name": "Mikhail Lukin", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder and Chief Scientist", "companyId": "quera" } ], "bio": "QuEra’s about page lists Mikhail Lukin, PhD, as co-founder and chief scientist, and as professor of physics at Harvard University. The same page lists Takuya Kitagawa as president and Andy Ory as chief executive officer. It does not list Lukin as chief executive.", "sources": [ { "label": "QuEra — About", "url": "https://www.quera.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "amir-naveh", "name": "Amir Naveh", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder and Chief Product Officer", "companyId": "classiq" } ], "bio": "Classiq’s about page lists Amir Naveh as co-founder and chief product officer. It says he founded the company in 2020 with Nir Minerbi and Yehuda Naveh. The page says the product lets developers define algorithms at a high level while automation handles the complexity underneath.", "sources": [ { "label": "Classiq — About", "url": "https://www.classiq.io/about-us" } ] }, { "id": "amit-ben-kish", "name": "Amit Ben Kish", "roles": [ { "title": "CTO and Co-founder", "companyId": "quantum-art" } ], "bio": "Quantum Art’s team page lists Dr. Amit Ben Kish as CTO and co-founder. It says he was a division CTO at Rafael, earned a PhD from the Technion, and was a research fellow in Nobel laureate David Wineland’s group at NIST, working on trapped ions. The page also says he founded a national centre of excellence for quantum sensing at Rafael.", "sources": [ { "label": "Quantum Art — Team", "url": "https://www.quantum-art.tech/team" } ] }, { "id": "andrea-orzati", "name": "Andrea Orzati", "roles": [ { "title": "CEO", "companyId": "zurich-instruments" } ], "bio": "A Zurich Instruments page states that the current CEO is Andrea Orzati, appointed in May 2024. That page does not add an earlier career history.", "sources": [ { "label": "Zurich Instruments", "url": "https://www.zhinst.com/americas/en/llm-info/" } ] }, { "id": "ashley-montanaro", "name": "Ashley Montanaro", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder and CEO", "companyId": "phasecraft" } ], "bio": "Phasecraft’s site lists Prof. Ashley Montanaro as co-founder and CEO. The same leadership block lists Prof. Toby Cubitt as co-founder, CTO, and chief scientific officer, and Prof. John Morton as co-founder and director. A longer biography was not in the text retrieved here.", "sources": [ { "label": "Phasecraft", "url": "https://www.phasecraft.io" } ] }, { "id": "asif-sinay", "name": "Asif Sinay", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder", "companyId": "qedma" } ], "bio": "Qedma’s about page lists Dr. Asif Sinay as chief executive officer and co-founder. It describes him as a physicist and entrepreneur focused on turning quantum research into software, and says he holds a PhD in physics from the Weizmann Institute.", "sources": [ { "label": "Qedma — About", "url": "https://www.qedma.com/about/" } ] }, { "id": "carmen-palacios-berraquero", "name": "Carmen Palacios-Berraquero", "roles": [ { "title": "Founder and CEO", "companyId": "nu-quantum" } ], "bio": "Nu Quantum’s about page lists Dr. Carmen Palacios-Berraquero as founder and CEO. A longer biography is linked from that page but was not in the text retrieved here, so this record stops at the title the page states.", "sources": [ { "label": "Nu Quantum — About", "url": "https://www.nu-quantum.com/about-us" } ] }, { "id": "chune-yang-lum", "name": "Chune Yang Lum", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder and CEO", "companyId": "speqtral" } ], "bio": "SpeQtral’s about page lists Chune Yang Lum as co-founder and CEO. It says he has more than 15 years across quantum, space, and telecommunications, including roles at SES and the Centre for Quantum Technologies. A longer biography stops there in the text retrieved.", "sources": [ { "label": "SpeQtral — About", "url": "https://speqtralquantum.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "dana-anderson", "name": "Dana Anderson", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Science Officer and Founder", "companyId": "infleqtion" } ], "bio": "Infleqtion’s about page lists Dana Anderson as chief science officer and founder, beside Matt Kinsella as chief executive officer and founding investor. The visible leadership list does not add a longer biography.", "sources": [ { "label": "Infleqtion — About", "url": "https://infleqtion.com/about/" } ] }, { "id": "dirk-englund", "name": "Dirk Englund", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder", "companyId": "quera" } ], "bio": "QuEra’s about page lists Dirk Englund as a co-founder and as professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. It does not give him a separate operating-executive title in the text checked here.", "sources": [ { "label": "QuEra — About", "url": "https://www.quera.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "dorit-aharonov", "name": "Dorit Aharonov", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Scientific Officer and Co-founder", "companyId": "qedma" } ], "bio": "Qedma’s about page lists Prof. Dorit Aharonov as chief scientific officer and co-founder. It describes her as a quantum-computing researcher and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with work in quantum fault tolerance and quantum computation.", "sources": [ { "label": "Qedma — About", "url": "https://www.qedma.com/about/" } ] }, { "id": "enrique-lizaso", "name": "Enrique Lizaso", "roles": [ { "title": "Founder and CEO", "companyId": "multiverse" } ], "bio": "Multiverse Computing’s team page lists Enrique Lizaso as founder and CEO. It says he is treasurer and a governing-board member of the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC), and co-lead of QuIC’s SMEs and funding workgroup. The page also lists degrees: mathematics at the University of Barcelona, a computer-engineering qualification at UNED, an M.D. at the University of Navarra, a PhD at Barcelona, and an MBA at IESE.", "sources": [ { "label": "Multiverse Computing — Our team", "url": "https://multiversecomputing.com/our-team" } ] }, { "id": "ewan-munro", "name": "Ewan Munro", "roles": [ { "title": "CTO and Co-founder", "companyId": "entropica" } ], "bio": "Entropica Labs’ team page lists Ewan Munro as co-founder and CTO. It says he has a PhD in theoretical physics from the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore and a master’s in mathematical physics from the University of Edinburgh. As CTO, the page says, he leads technical strategy, customer projects, and the company’s IP strategy.", "sources": [ { "label": "Entropica Labs — Team", "url": "https://entropicalabs.com/team/" } ] }, { "id": "james-nguyen", "name": "James Nguyen", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder, President, and CEO", "companyId": "quantropi" } ], "bio": "Quantropi’s leadership page lists James Nguyen as co-founder, president, and chief executive officer. It says he co-founded the quantum-secure communications company in 2018 with Dr. Randy Kuang. The page cites milestones under his leadership, including a NATO-approved supplier listing and a 2023 Future in Review starter award.", "sources": [ { "label": "Quantropi — Leadership", "url": "https://www.quantropi.com/leadership-team/" } ] }, { "id": "jan-goetz", "name": "Jan Goetz", "roles": [ { "title": "CEO and Co-founder", "companyId": "iqm" } ], "bio": "IQM’s leadership page lists Dr. Jan Goetz as CEO and co-founder. The same page names other officers, including a chief operating officer and deputy CEO, but it does not add a longer biography for Goetz in the text checked here.", "sources": [ { "label": "IQM — Leadership", "url": "https://iqm.tech/company/leadership-team/" } ] }, { "id": "jason-lynch", "name": "Jason Lynch", "roles": [ { "title": "CEO", "companyId": "equal1" } ], "bio": "Equal1’s company page lists Jason Lynch as CEO. The same team line lists Dirk Leipold as president and co-founder. The page does not add a longer biography for Lynch in the text checked here.", "sources": [ { "label": "Equal1 — Company", "url": "https://www.equal1.com/company" } ] }, { "id": "john-levy", "name": "John Levy", "roles": [ { "title": "CEO, Chairman, and Co-founder", "companyId": "seeqc" } ], "bio": "SEEQC’s about page lists John Levy as CEO and chairman, and says he is CEO and co-founder. It says SEEQC was founded in 2019 as a spinout of Hypres, and that from 2012 to 2019 he was executive chairman there. The page says he holds an A.B. from Amherst College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.", "sources": [ { "label": "SEEQC — About", "url": "https://seeqc.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "john-morton", "name": "John Morton", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder and Director", "companyId": "phasecraft" } ], "bio": "Phasecraft’s site lists Prof. John Morton as co-founder and director. The same block lists Prof. Ashley Montanaro as co-founder and CEO and Prof. Toby Cubitt as co-founder, CTO, and chief scientific officer. The directory also names Morton among Quantum Motion’s founders; that role was not on a Quantum Motion page retrieved for this pass.", "sources": [ { "label": "Phasecraft", "url": "https://www.phasecraft.io" } ] }, { "id": "kim-povlsen", "name": "Kim Povlsen", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Executive Officer", "companyId": "bluefors" } ], "bio": "Bluefors’ leadership page lists Kim Povlsen as chief executive officer and says he leads a team of 700 employees globally. It says he previously served as president and CEO of Universal Robots. Earlier, the page says, he held leadership roles at Schneider Electric in Europe, the US, and Asia.", "sources": [ { "label": "Bluefors — Leadership", "url": "https://bluefors.com/company/leadership/" } ] }, { "id": "maksym-sich", "name": "Maksym Sich", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder and Chief Information Officer", "companyId": "aegiq" } ], "bio": "Aegiq’s company page lists Dr Maksym Sich as a board co-founder and chief information officer. It says he builds the delivery organisation and commercial, ecosystem, and investor engagement. The page calls him a quantum physicist and Doctoral Prize Fellow who became a founding entrepreneur, with a PhD in physics from the University of Sheffield.", "sources": [ { "label": "Aegiq — Company", "url": "https://www.aegiq.com/company" } ] }, { "id": "markus-greiner", "name": "Markus Greiner", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder", "companyId": "quera" } ], "bio": "QuEra’s about page lists Markus Greiner as a co-founder and as professor of physics at Harvard University. It does not give him a separate operating title such as chief executive or chief technology officer.", "sources": [ { "label": "QuEra — About", "url": "https://www.quera.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "matt-kinsella", "name": "Matt Kinsella", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Executive Officer and Founding Investor", "companyId": "infleqtion" } ], "bio": "Infleqtion’s about page lists Matt Kinsella as chief executive officer and founding investor. The same leadership list names Dana Anderson as chief science officer and founder. The page does not add a longer career history for Kinsella in the text checked here.", "sources": [ { "label": "Infleqtion — About", "url": "https://infleqtion.com/about/" } ] }, { "id": "matthieu-desjardins", "name": "Matthieu Desjardins", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder", "companyId": "c12" } ], "bio": "C12’s about page says the company was founded in 2020 by twin brothers Matthieu and Pierre Desjardins, spinning out of the ENS Physics Lab in Paris. Scientific advisors named there are Takis Kontos and Matthieu Delbecq. The page does not, in that passage, give Matthieu a separate chief-executive title.", "sources": [ { "label": "C12 — About", "url": "https://www.c12qe.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "maud-vinet", "name": "Maud Vinet", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder", "companyId": "quobly" } ], "bio": "Quobly’s leadership page lists Maud Vinet as chief executive officer and co-founder. Tristan Meunier is listed on the same page as chief scientific officer and co-founder. A longer biography was linked but not in the text retrieved here.", "sources": [ { "label": "Quobly — Leadership", "url": "https://www.quobly.io/leadership/" } ] }, { "id": "michael-fortsch", "name": "Michael Förtsch", "roles": [ { "title": "CEO", "companyId": "qant" } ], "bio": "Q.ANT’s about page identifies Michael Förtsch as CEO of Q.ANT GmbH. The page describes the company as a photonic-processing scale-up and does not add a separate career history for him.", "sources": [ { "label": "Q.ANT — About", "url": "https://qant.com/about-us/" } ] }, { "id": "michele-mosca", "name": "Michele Mosca", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer", "companyId": "evolutionq" } ], "bio": "evolutionQ’s site lists Dr. Michele Mosca as co-founder and chief executive officer. The same site names him as an author, with Dr. Marco Piani, of Quantum Threat Timeline research reports published with the Global Risk Institute. A longer career biography was not in the text retrieved here.", "sources": [ { "label": "evolutionQ", "url": "https://www.evolutionq.com" } ] }, { "id": "nagendra-nagaraja", "name": "Nagendra Nagaraja", "roles": [ { "title": "Founder, CEO, and Chairman", "companyId": "qpiai" } ], "bio": "QpiAI’s about page lists Dr. Nagendra Nagaraja, PhD, as founder, CEO, and chairman of the board. A longer biography was not in the text retrieved here.", "sources": [ { "label": "QpiAI — About", "url": "https://www.qpiai.tech/about" } ] }, { "id": "nathan-gemelke", "name": "Nathan Gemelke", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder and Chief Technology Strategist", "companyId": "quera" } ], "bio": "QuEra’s about page lists Nathan Gemelke, PhD, as co-founder and chief technology strategist. It says he was the company’s chief technology officer in its early days, led technical development of its neutral-atom computers, and built the scientific and engineering team. The page says he spent more than a decade in academic physics before helping start QuEra.", "sources": [ { "label": "QuEra — About", "url": "https://www.quera.com/about" } ] }, { "id": "netanel-lindner", "name": "Netanel Lindner", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder", "companyId": "qedma" } ], "bio": "Qedma’s about page lists Prof. Netanel Lindner as chief technology officer and co-founder. It describes him as a theoretical physicist and professor at the Technion whose research spans quantum computing, photonic systems, and topological quantum matter.", "sources": [ { "label": "Qedma — About", "url": "https://www.qedma.com/about/" } ] }, { "id": "niels-bultink", "name": "Niels Bultink", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder", "companyId": "qblox" } ], "bio": "Qblox’s about page lists Niels Bultink as chief executive officer and co-founder. The team page uses the same CEO and co-founder title. Neither page, in the text checked here, adds a longer biography.", "sources": [ { "label": "Qblox — About", "url": "https://qblox.com/about" }, { "label": "Qblox — Team", "url": "https://qblox.com/team" } ] }, { "id": "nir-minerbi", "name": "Nir Minerbi", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder and CEO", "companyId": "classiq" } ], "bio": "Classiq’s about page says the company was founded in 2020 by Nir Minerbi, Amir Naveh, and Yehuda Naveh, and lists Nir Minerbi as co-founder and CEO. The page says they started from the view that quantum software would not scale as a circuit-by-circuit craft, and built a platform where developers define algorithms at a high level.", "sources": [ { "label": "Classiq — About", "url": "https://www.classiq.io/about-us" } ] }, { "id": "oded-melamed", "name": "Oded Melamed", "roles": [ { "title": "CEO", "companyId": "quantum-source" } ], "bio": "Quantum Source’s about page lists Oded Melamed as CEO. 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