Rigetti Creates Systems Delivery Unit as Quantum System Deployments Grow

Insider Brief

• Rigetti Computing is creating a dedicated Systems Delivery organization and a new COO role to support growing on-premises quantum system deployments.
• David Rivas has been appointed COO, overseeing operations, systems delivery, commercial functions and customer-facing engineering.
• Andrew Bestwick has been appointed CTO, with responsibility for quantum processor development, chip fabrication development and hardware engineering.

Press release – Rigetti Computing, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGTI) (“Rigetti”), a pioneer in full-stack quantum computing, today announced a new operating structure designed to scale deployment of on-premises quantum systems, strengthen end-to-end operational execution, and further focus its engineering resources on quantum processor development.

Rigetti is establishing a dedicated Systems Delivery organization and creating the role of Chief Operating Officer to lead manufacturing operations, systems delivery, commercial functions, and customer-facing engineering. Quantum processor architecture, chip development, and hardware engineering will be consolidated under the Chief Technology Officer.

The Company has seen increased demand for customer deployments of on-premises systems, ranging from 9-qubit Novera systems to large-scale 108-qubit Cepheus-class systems. Historically, installation and customer support activities have been supported within the engineering organization. The new structure creates dedicated leadership and resources for system deployment and customer success, while enabling engineering teams to concentrate on advancing processor performance and the Company’s published technology roadmap, including its target of 99.5% median two-qubit gate fidelity on Cepheus-1-108Q.