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• Rajeeb (Raj) Hazra has been appointed to the function of Chief Government Officer (CEO) of Quantinuum.
• The corporate mentioned Hazra will assist Quantinuum its mission to speed up quantum computing because it enters a interval of fast scaling.
• Present CEO and founder Ilyas Khan stays within the management workforce and can give attention to product improvement and innovation as Chief Product Officer. He additionally stays a member of Quantinuum’s board of administrators and can take up the place of Vice Chairman.

PRESS RELEASE — Quantinuum immediately introduced that Rajeeb (Raj) Hazra has been appointed to the function of Chief Government Officer (CEO) of Quantinuum, efficient instantly. In stepping down, present Quantinuum CEO Ilyas Khan will stay a pacesetter within the firm. He stays a member of the board of administrators and can now change into Vice Chairman. As well as, he’ll stay a full-time senior govt of the corporate and drive product improvement and innovation as Quantinuum’s first Chief Product Officer – a job that Khan is deeply keen about.

Hazra has greater than three many years of expertise in supercomputing, quantum, and technical roles throughout the globe. He’ll work intently with Khan and the manager workforce to speed up quantum computing and advance the commercialization of the corporate. He takes over the management of a corporation that presently has greater than 480 folks, driving breakthroughs in dru

g discovery, healthcare, supplies science, cybersecurity, vitality transformation and local weather change.

“Raj is uniquely certified for this function, having confirmed his technical skills in superior applied sciences and supercomputing in each small and huge organizations,” mentioned Khan. “His imaginative and prescient and management expertise are precisely what we have to proceed to speed up our influence within the quantum computing sector, in addition to society as an entire. He has an entrepreneurial spirit, a strategic mindset, a ardour for software program and {hardware} applied sciences, in addition to management expertise in growing new industrial alternatives for quantum computing. He’ll proceed to make sure that Quantinuum is ‘science-led, enterprise pushed.’ I sit up for partnering with Raj as we create information and actual options for the world’s most urgent challenges.”

“With Raj on the helm, Quantinuum is nicely positioned to proceed to develop its affect on the rising quantum enterprise sector, and make an influence on actual challenges,” famous Darius Adamczyk, Quantinuum’s Chairman of the Board. “The time is ideal to deliver Raj into the corporate, as we construct momentum to drive the subsequent chapter of quantum industries. He’ll assist the corporate drive high-speed innovation and entrepreneurship within the quantum trade. I’m additionally grateful to Ilyas for his continued management in his new place, and grateful that he’ll nonetheless deliver his vitality to creating Quantinuum profitable.”

“I’m honored to step into the CEO function, the place I’m excited to give attention to serving to Quantinuum develop and drive the improvements that may remodel the way in which quantum computing positively impacts the world,” Hazra mentioned. “By constructing on the strong basis that Ilyas and the workforce have laid, we’ll proceed to speed up Quantinuum into the long run.”

“We’re excited to take this subsequent step ahead in what is a vital second within the quantum computing trade,” mentioned President and Chief Working Officer Tony Uttley. “We’ll proceed to work with our clients and companions to ultimately remedy among the world’s most intractable issues that typical computing doesn’t enable, whereas on the identical time persevering with to satisfy our current commitments.”

Hazra was most just lately Senior Vice President and Normal Supervisor, Compute and Networking Enterprise Unit, and beforehand Senior Vice President, Company Technique and Communications, at Micron Expertise (Nasdaq: MU) the place he was primarily based in San Jose, California. There, he created the Company Technique Workplace, working intently with the CEO employees to outline and implement a five-year strategic plan for the corporate. As Normal Supervisor of the corporate’s largest and most worthwhile enterprise unit, he was chargeable for a greater than $12 billion annual P&L and a worldwide workforce throughout the US, Europe, and Asia in enterprise operations, market improvement, and buyer assist features.

He beforehand spent 25 years at Intel Company, main the Enterprise and Authorities Group, Technical Computing Group, Supercomputer Structure and Planning, and Techniques Expertise Analysis. There he reworked the group to give attention to a world of hybrid, multi-cloud infrastructure, leading to new merchandise and partnerships. He additionally reworked the enterprise to realize development after a number of years of decline with first-ever methods to harness the transfer to hybrid multi-cloud and enterprise use of synthetic intelligence and machine studying. He additionally has deep technical expertise main groups of a number of hundred researchers unfold over a number of geographies.

Raj has a Ph.D. and a Grasp of Science in Pc Science from the School of William and Mary in Virginia, U.S., and a Bachelor of Science in Pc Science from Jadavpur College in Kolkata, India.