About us

Roland's career spans over three decades of technology and innovation leadership, in large-scale executive capacities as well as in startup leadership roles. He started his professional career developing new to the world packet networking and distributed systems technologies at 3Com and Interphase. He then played pivotal roles driving massive revenue growth at Cisco, first in EMEA field leadership positions, then in product leadership in internet access, broadband, and core router markets as a General Manager of business units, during the foundational internet buildout years. As President and CEO of Arch Rock, Roland led the creation of new industry categories in the areas of IPv6-based sensing, internet of things, and smart grid and energy analytics and optimisation. Roland subsequently led Cisco's cloud innovations as the General Manager of its Data Center Business Group, then its overall technology strategy as Chief Technology Officer. He recently served as Chief Business Officer at PsiQuantum, where he led the company's customer and market facing functions as well as the quantum application engineering team developing algorithms and tools to solve customer applications.Roland is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Télécom Paris in France, and he holds a M.Sc. degree in Statistics from Texas A&M University, where he also served as an Advisor to its Masters in Business Analytics program.

Dr. Carmen Palacios-Berraquero is the Founder and Chief Executive of Nu Quantum, the leading quantum entanglement company, which recently raised a £8.5M pre-Series A from leading VCs including Amadeus Capital, IQ Capital, and the National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF). She is an award-winning quantum physicist and inventor, author of several high-impact research papers and a book based on her doctoral research. Prior to founding Nu Quantum, Carmen earned her PhD in physics at the University of Cambridge and undergraduate at Imperial College London. She also serves on the Technical Advisory Board of the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre and is Cofounder and Director of UKQuantum, the UK’s quantum industry group. She has been the leader of several pro-equality and LGBTQIA+ visibility groups, and initiatives in STEM and has been featured in Wired, Bloomberg, Forbes, BBC, and Sifted.

Ed is a seasoned leader with a track-record of helping create & bring to market category-creating Products; he combines engineering sensibilities with a strong and creative product sense with business acumen. His pragmatic Market Led approach has been instrumental in successfully positioning products in both mature, highly competitive and 'green field' markets. Beyond Product, he has skills and experience leading Marketing, Business Development and Commercial activities. He is a passionate advocate of clear communication of the *business* benefits of a solution, delivered by the underlying technology. He has worked to bring high-impact high-utility solutions to multiple market sectors world-wide including Banking, Finance, Manufacturing, Government and Hyperscalers. He has experience of high growth environments, from start-ups to international technology giants. Ed is fascinated by company culture and the ability of good culture to multiply productivity; he is actively involved in the nurturing and maintaining of the ambitious and productive ethos at Nu Quantum. He loves to share his business experience and is involved in multiple programs to mentor and guide technology startups.

Sam has over 30 years experience in commercial high-tech IP and licensing, more recently in the fields of cryptography and artificial intelligence and before that in microprocessor design, system-on-chip, SaaS and software. She was ARM’s first in-house Patent Counsel and has worked with a number of early-stage entrepreneurs and start-ups with early stage technology business strategies. Currently, as VP Legal & IP, Sam contributes significantly to the company's operational excellence and legal affairs, leveraging her vast knowledge and experience to drive Nu Quantum’s success in pioneering Quantum Networks and distributed Quantum Computing.

Dr Claire Le Gall joined Nu Quantum in April 2023 to lead our technical teams and bring together our technology blocks towards creating ‘the entanglement fabric’ that will allow to scale quantum computing. Claire is an accomplished experimental Physicist with a strong background in quantum optics, spin-photon interfaces and quantum networks, having previously led her own research group as a Dorothy Hodgkin Royal Society Fellow at The Cavendish Laboratory - Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. Notably, Claire demonstrated the fastest two-node quantum network (2017) and a world-first collective quantum memory (2019 & 2024), using optically active semiconductor quantum dots. Before joining Nu Quantum, Claire gained industry experience at Microsoft Research Cambridge, in their hardware group ‘Optics for the Cloud’. Claire has a track-record of solving cutting-edge scientific challenges, and managing the trade-offs and complex system-engineering requirements of quantum hardware.

Hemant has a successful track record of leading, scaling and commercialising technology businesses in the telecoms, biometrics, semiconductor and security sectors. Previous roles have included CEO of IDEX ASA, CEO of Filtronic Plc, and also Chair and Director of BluWireless. Hemant is focussed on helping high growth technology companies achieve commercial success.

Dr. Bob Sutor is a 40+ year veteran of the computer R&D and the IT industry. He is a tech executive, author of quantum computing books, advisor, keynote speaker, analyst, and professor. Sutor has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton and has worked at IBM, Infleqtion, and The Futurum Group.

An active venture capitalist for 30 years, Anne is CEO and Co-founder of the international technology investor, Amadeus Capital Partners. Anne holds an MA from Clare College, University of Cambridge, and an MPPM from Yale School of Management. She was awarded a CBE in 2006 for services to business, is an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.