Who's News at Quantum Computing Inc., Quantum Brilliance, Rigetti, and QED-C

Quantum Computing Inc. has named William J. McGann to serve on its Board of Directors. McGann has been the Chief Technology Office since 2019 at Leidos Inc., a defense, aviation, information technology, and biomedical research company headquartered in Reston, Virginia. Quantum Brilliance, a company developing synthetic diamond based quantum accelerators, that operate at room temperature has appointed Mark Mattingley-Scott as Managing Director of Europe. Mattingley-Scott was a 31 year veteran of IBM and most recently served as IBM Quantum Ambassador for the EMEA and Asia-Pacific teams. Rigetti Computing has announced that Dr. David Pappas has joined them as Senior Principal Scientist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he most recently led the Quantum Processing Group. Earlier this year, Rigetti had added Dr. Josh Mutus to its hardware development team as Director, Quantum Materials. Mutus was a former quantum research scientist at Google. And Dr. Jonathan Felbinger has joined the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) as Deputy Director. He previously had been with the US Government Accountability Office, the U.S. Department of Defense, and two leading microelectronics research laboratories in Europe.

September 25, 2021