Who’s News: Strategic Leadership Appointments at Quandela, Zapata Quantum, Imperagen, and EigenQ

Quandela has announced a major restructuring of its executive leadership and governance to drive the international scale-up of its photonic quantum computing hardware. Cyril Dujardin, an executive with 25 years of deep tech and cybersecurity experience at Atos and Eutelsat/OneWeb, has been named Chief Operating Officer (COO). Joining him is semiconductor and aerospace operations veteran Michel Zecri as VP of Industrialization, who will lead the manufacturing and supply chain maturity of Quandela's hardware platforms. Additionally, board member and former CEO of OVHcloud Michel Paulin has been elevated to Chairman of the Board. The full announcement can be found here.

Zapata Quantum (OTC: ZPTA) has announced the strategic return of two of its original Harvard Quantum Lab co-founders to key executive positions following a recent operational restructuring. Yudong Cao, Ph.D., rejoins the company as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) after serving as the Head of Quantum at Boston Consulting Group's BCG X. Alongside him, theoretical physicist and intellectual property attorney Jonathan Olson, Ph.D., J.D., returns as Vice President of Strategy and Operations. The co-founders will oversee the company's hardware-agnostic quantum application and software portfolio. The official press release is available here.

Imperagen has secured £5 million in seed funding to advance its biocatalysis platform and has appointed tech and life sciences executive Guy Levy-Yurista, Ph.D., as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The Manchester-based company combines quantum physics simulations with automated robotics and AI modeling to engineer industrial enzymes. Levy-Yurista will lead the company's next phase of global commercial expansion across the pharmaceutical and sustainable chemical sectors. The funding and appointment notice can be reviewed here.

EigenQ has expanded its governance team with the appointment of Natan Aronshtam to its Board of Directors, effective June 1, 2026. Aronshtam, a current Senior Partner at Deloitte, brings extensive enterprise risk, cybersecurity, and corporate governance expertise to the company. His role will focus on driving market adoption of EigenQ’s hardware-rooted, quantum-safe data verification and trust infrastructure platforms. The welcome announcement is published here.

We wish all these organizations and individuals success in their new endeavors.

May 29, 2026