Who's News - Management Additions at IonQ and ColdQuanta

IonQ has appointed Inder M. Singh to its Board of Directors. Singh is the Executive Vice President (EVP) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Arm, where he leads the global finance organization as well as corporate IT operations, procurement and enterprise security teams. Before ARM, he previously held senior finance roles at Unisys, Comcast, Cisco Systems, and AT&T/Lucent as well as equity capital market firms including Prudential Securities and SunTrust. IonQ also announced they have brought on Ariel Braunstein as Senior Vice President of Product Management. Braunstein was the co-founder of Pure Digital Technology and had other previous senior level experience leading groups at Cisco and Google. They also have added Dean Kassmann as Vice President of Research and Development. Kassman most recently was the Senior Director of Advanced Technology for Blue Origin and has held other advanced modeling and planning roles at both Aspen Technology and Amazon. IonQ's news release announcing these appointments is available here.

ColdQuanta has named Chester Kennedy as President of Research and Security Solutions. This group provides security solutions such as sensors, quantum RF, and other services using quantum derived technologies. Previously Kennedy held senior leadership at CK TEC SOLUTIONS, BRIDG, and Lockheed Martin where he served as serving as Vice President and Chief Engineer for Mission Systems and Training, and Vice President of Engineering for Global Training and Logistics. ColdQuantja has also appointed Barry Behnken as Executive Vice President (EVP) of Engineering where he will lead and develop engineering teams across ColdQuanta's three divisions – Quantum Computing, Quantum Research as a Service (QRaaS), and ColdAtom Technologies (CAT). Behnken had previously held senior leadership positions at AEye, York Space Systems, Raytheon Space & Airborne System, and the U.S. Air Force. You can view ColdQuanta's news release announcing these executive appointments here.

December 16, 2021