Jason Lynch has been appointed as the new chief executive of silicon quantum computing company Equal1 Laboratories.
Company founder and board member Dirk Leipold will move into the role of President to focus his energy on accelerating development of the company's quantum-enhanced processor technology.
Mr Lynch has led Equal1's Irish operation and has driven the company’s strategy, fundraising and scaling. Before joining the company, he worked as a General Manager at Analog Devices and previously as Managing Director at Hittite Microwave.
Dirk Leipold founded Equal1 with Mike Asker and Professor R Bogdan Staszewski as a spin-out from University College Dublin (UCD) to address a major challenge for the quantum computing industry.
The company’s research and development teams are based at NovaUCD, in Dublin and Silicon Valley in California.
Equal1's quantum technology is well suited to Quantum Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
AI is transforming every aspect of our lives from self-driving vehicles to AI-designed drugs. But the amount of energy required by these applications means that it is now a material and growing contributor to global carbon output and global warming.
The company said its quantum computing technology will allow for a much better performance at a fraction of the energy.
