Dr. Geordie Rose co-founded D-Wave in 1999, serving as CEO from 1999 to 2003 and CTO from 2004 to 2014, helping establish it as the world’s first quantum computing company and leading it to a $1.6B IPO. He later co-founded and served as CEO of Kindred from 2014 to 2018, which was acquired by Ocado for $262M, and led Sanctuary from 2018 to 2024. Currently, he is working at the intersection of games, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing at Snowdrop.