Qolab’s leadership brings together decades of collaboration across academia and industry. Early connections at UC Berkeley and later work at Google and NIST ultimately led to the company’s founding.
Alan Ho
CEO, Co-founder
Brings extensive experience as former
Head of Product at Google Quantum AI,
where he led product efforts behind the
quantum supremacy experiment.
John Martinis
CTO, Co-founder
Distinguished physicist and 2025 Nobel
laureate in Physics recognized for
pioneering superconducting qubits and
advancing scalable quantum systems.
Robert McDermott
Head of Hardware, Co-founder
UW–Madison professor and leading
physicist advancing superconducting
qubits, quantum measurement, and
scalable quantum computing systems.
Britton Plourde
Quantum hardware engineer
Renowned physicist recognized for
pioneering qubit readout and control
techniques and designing efficient
quantum circuits.
Roman Caudillo
Quantum hardware engineer
Materials scientist leading semiconductor R&D, superconducting qubits, and large-scale global industry collaborations.