Leadership

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.

Shariq Siddiqui

Quantum hardware engineer

Semiconductor leader advancing scalable systems, high-volume manufacturing, and quantum-enabled technology development.

Where to meet our team