Former IBM Executive Joerg Behrend Joins Q.ANT as VP Hardware

Insider Brief

• Q.ANT has appointed former IBM executive Joerg Behrend as Vice President Hardware to lead development of its next generations of photonic processors.
• Behrend will oversee work spanning chip technology, processor architecture and production readiness of Q.ANT’s Native Processing Units (NPUs).
• His appointment is the fifth leadership addition at Q.ANT within 12 months as the company expands its photonic computing operations across Stuttgart and Austin.

PRESS RELEASE — Q.ANT, a leading provider of photonic processors for energy-efficient high-performance computing and artificial intelligence, is strengthening its leadership team with the addition of Joerg Behrend, who joined the company as Vice President Hardware. In this role, he will be responsible for advancing the next generations of Q.ANT’s photonic processors – from the underlying chip technology and processor architecture through to production readiness of the Native Processing Units (NPUs). Behrend reports to CTO Bruno Spruth and works across Q.ANT’s Stuttgart and Austin, Texas, sites. 

Behrend’s technical background spans processor development, high-performance computing, and parallel and distributed systems. Joerg Behrend brings more than two decades of experience in developing processor and system technologies. Most recently, he served as Senior Software Engineering Manager at IBM, where he led development teams at the intersection of hardware and software.  His technical background spans processor development, high-performance computing, and parallel and distributed systems. At IBM, he most recently served as Senior Manager for IBM Quantum at IBM Research & Development in Böblingen, where he was responsible for several R&D departments with up to 30 employees, focusing on cloud backend development, compilers, tooling, and runtime engineering for quantum computing — a role at the intersection of quantum hardware and software.