BTQ Technologies Appoints Michael Grace to Support QCIM Development

Following Samsung, Grace served as Director of Product Security at Mojo Vision, where he led product security efforts for the company’s advanced smart contact lens platform. His broader academic and industry work has focused on trusted computing, security testing frameworks and security architectures for small, highly connected devices.

“Michael brings a perspective that becomes increasingly important as QCIM moves from core architecture into broader system integration and commercial evaluation,” said Olivier Roussy Newton, CEO and Chairman of BTQ Technologies. “He has spent his career addressing the practical challenges of building security into complex products and deploying those technologies in environments where security, performance and reliability cannot be treated independently. That experience will be highly valuable as we continue working with our semiconductor partners and begin evaluating how QCIM can be integrated into real-world devices and infrastructure.”

Grace joins BTQ as the Company continues to advance its global QCIM chip roadmap alongside ICTK Co., Ltd. (“ICTK”) (KOSDAQ: 456010) and Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (“ITRI”).

BTQ recently completed the first technical milestone of its multi-year collaboration with ITRI, validating the QCIM core within a TSMC 28-nanometre design environment and demonstrating acceleration of cryptographic operations associated with FIPS 203, FIPS 204 and FIPS 205, the post-quantum cryptography standards established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. The results confirmed the functional correctness and feasibility of the QCIM architecture and demonstrated performance advantages and crypto-agility across multiple post-quantum algorithms.

The program has now advanced into its next phase of module-level integration, verification and validation, intended to further evaluate how the QCIM core can be incorporated into broader system architectures while preserving functional correctness, interoperability and performance.

“Security architecture has to work as part of the complete system, not just in isolation,” said Dr. Michael Grace. “My career has focused on that intersection in taking security technologies and making them practical across devices, platforms and real-world deployment environments. QCIM is addressing an important challenge as cryptographic requirements evolve, and I am excited to work with the BTQ team as the architecture progresses through integration, validation and ultimately toward commercial deployment.”

QCIM is BTQ‘s soft IP cryptographic accelerator architecture designed to support both classical and post-quantum cryptographic functions in a compact, low-power block. By executing cryptographic operations inside the memory subsystem, QCIM is designed to reduce latency, power consumption and data movement while supporting crypto-agile security across a range of chip architectures and connected devices.

The next-generation QCIM quantum-security chip is being developed for use across IoT, AI devices, industrial systems, secure elements, edge devices and other connected infrastructure where device authentication, security performance and long-term cryptographic resilience are becoming increasingly important.

Grace earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. His research, patents and industry work have addressed trusted computing, security testing frameworks, mobile security and the security challenges created by increasingly connected and context-rich devices.