Chad Rigetti.

Chad Rigetti is the Founder and former CEO of Rigetti Computing, the publicly traded quantum computing company building superconducting quantum processors and full-stack quantum systems.

Rigetti founded the company in 2013 after earning his PhD in applied physics from Yale and working as a research scientist at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center on quantum computing hardware. Under his leadership, Rigetti Computing became one of the first quantum hardware startups to go public, listing on NASDAQ in 2022. The company designs and manufactures its own quantum chips at its purpose-built fabrication facility in Fremont, California, and offers cloud access to quantum systems through its Quantum Cloud Services platform. Rigetti pioneered hybrid classical-quantum computing approaches that allow developers to run useful computations on today's noisy quantum hardware. The company has secured contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and commercial enterprises exploring quantum algorithms. Rigetti's vision of building practical quantum computing at scale-combining custom hardware, manufacturing, and software-positions the company at the frontier of what is projected to become one of the most transformative computing paradigms of the century.