Helping the Mountain West and America lead in quantum

Elevate Quantum Team

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    JESSI OLSEN

    Chief Executive Officer, Regional Innovation Officer

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    ZACHARY YERUSHALMI

    Board Member, Co-founder of Elevate Quantum

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    JEFF TYLER

    Director – Quantum Commercialization Lab

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    DAVID LOPEZ

    Director of Workforce Development

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    KEVIN PERSKY

    Business Operations Manager

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Elevate Board

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    WENDY LEA

    Co-Founder and Chair of Energize Colorado

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  • EVE LIEBERMAN

    Executive Director, CO OEDIT

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    CORBAN TILLEMANN-DICK

    Chair, Elevate Quantum; CEO, Maybell Quantum

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    ALEX GREENBERG

    Economic Development Adviser, New Mexico

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    ANTHONY NEAL-GRAVES

    Former Chief Information Officer, State of Colorado

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    DAN CARUSO

    Managing Director, Caruso Ventures

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    MASSIMO RUZZENE

    Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation,
    CU Boulder

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    JESUS SALAZAR

    CEO, Prosono; Chair, Colorado School of Mines

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    DR. MATTHIAS TROYER

    Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft

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    DR. COLLEEN SIMPSON

    President, Front Range Community College

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  • SCOTT R. DAVIS, PH.D.

    CEO, Vescent

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Co-Leads and Special Advisors

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    LUCY SANDERS

    INCLUDE Co-Lead and EQWC Co-Chair

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  • DR. JOSEPH GLICK

    Special Advisor Quantum Commercialization

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    DR. BRIAN RASHAP

    INCLUDE Co-Lead

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    DR. LINCOLN D. CARR

    Special Advisor – Quantum Science and Policy

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    KEITH WRIGHT

    Special Advisor Quantum Ecosystem Development

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Industry Advisory Board


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    SRISTY AGARWAL

    Mesa Quantum

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    MICHAEL BRETT

    Amazon AWS

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    PETER FENDEL

    Thorlabs

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    MICHAEL HAYDUK

    AFRL

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    MATTHEW KINSELLA

    Infleqtion

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    KANIAH KONKOLY-THEGE

    Chair Quantinuum

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    GREG RIEKER

    University of Colorado Boulder and LongPath Technologies

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    JOSH WEST

    FormFactor

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    BOB WOLD

    Quantum Rings

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Scientific Advisory Board

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    BEN BLOOM

    Atom Computing

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    DR. LINCOLN D. CARR

    Colorado School of Mines

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    MICHAEL CHEN

    Harvard - MIT

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    IVAN DEUTSCH

    University of New Mexico

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    SCOTT DIDDAMS

    University of Colorado Boulder

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    MARGARET MARTONOSI

    Co-Chair Princeton University

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    MICHAEL RABIN

    Los Alamos National Lab

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    JUN YE

    University of Colorado Boulder and NIST

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Elevate Quantum Workforce Collaborative (EQWC) Advisory Board

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    LUCY SANDERS

    (Co-Chair) NCWIT

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    JESSI OLSEN

    (Co-Chair) Elevate Quantum

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    JAKE DOUGLASS

    IonQ

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    SUSAN SCHWAMBERGER

    Quantinuum

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    HELEN HAYES

    ActivateWork

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    JOE MCBREEN

    Saint Vrain Valley School District

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    Bradley Holt

    IBM

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    JOELLE MARTINEZ

    Latino Leadership Institute

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    GWEN LEIFER

    Lockheed Martin

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    EMILY EDWARDS

    Partnership

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    RENISE WALKER

    Colorado Workforce, Development Council

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    KYLE LEE

    Central New Mexico Community College

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    NOEL GODDARD

    Qunnect

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    SUSAN ATLAS

    University of New Mexico

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