March 18, 2024 -- D-Wave Quantum Inc. (“D-Wave” or the “Company”), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services and the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, today announced it is expanding its executive team to supercharge both its go-to-market growth strategy and product innovation.

The two appointments include cloud entrepreneur and IT industry veteran Lorenzo Martinelli as the Company’s first Chief Revenue Officer, tapped to spearhead the company's commercial expansion into key vertical markets. D-Wave has also promoted Dr. Trevor Lanting to Chief Development Officer to lead its product innovation roadmap, spanning D-Wave’s full stack of quantum computing hardware and software solutions.

B2B Technology Growth Veteran Lorenzo Martinelli Named Chief Revenue Officer

Overseeing sales, marketing, professional services, and customer success, Martinelli will be pivotal in executing the Company's recently launched go-to-market (GTM) growth strategy, designed to accelerate the adoption and deployment of D-Wave’s quantum technologies across key verticals, starting with logistics, manufacturing, and government. Over the past 30 years, Martinelli has built a record guiding start-ups from inception to IPO with broad experience from leadership roles at QAD DynaSys, E2open, AristaSoft, Baan (now Infor), Digital Equipment (now HPE) and IBM. His expertise in devising innovative GTM strategies for optimization applications will help D-Wave effectively capitalize on the industry transition to the operational use of quantum computing.

Dr. Trevor Lanting Promoted to Chief Development Officer

In his new role as Chief Development Officer, Dr. Trevor Lanting's responsibilities now include D-Wave's product roadmap and initiatives to advance the science of quantum computing. In addition to the Leap™ real-time quantum cloud service and the Ocean™ software suite of open source Python tools, Lanting will also help direct the ongoing development of the Advantage™ and Advantage2™ annealing quantum computing systems, the Company’s gate model computing program, and the interdisciplinary teams focused on performance research and algorithm development. With over 15 years of experience in technology development at D-Wave, Lanting previously served as Senior Vice President of Software, Algorithms and Cloud Services at the Company.

"This is a watershed moment as enterprise customers are starting to move quantum applications into production," said Dr. Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave. “The expertise and leadership of these two seasoned leaders will be instrumental in executing our GTM strategy, fueling new commercial opportunities, and advancing our technology innovation as we continue to demonstrate annealing quantum computing’s impact on customers today.”