IonQ, Inc. (NYSE:IONQ) Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference March 4, 2025 4:50 PM ET
Company Participants
Niccolo de Masi – President and CEO
Conference Call Participants
Joseph Moore – Morgan Stanley
Joseph Moore
All right. Welcome back, everybody. I’m Joe Moore. Very happy to have with us today. This is actually the fifth new CEO that I’ve hosted at our conference, I’m cheating with two but full fair.
A – Niccolo de Masi
But crucially it’s the best one.
Joseph Moore
Yeah, there you go. But Niccolo Masi, newly minted CEO of IonQ. So maybe you could just give us a little bit of a sense of your background and what led to the transition to CEO, and then we can go on.
Niccolo de Masi
Sure. Yeah, so I’m a physicist originally. I was actually one of the original sponsors of the IonQ IPO in 2020. And Peter Chapman and I have been working together really closely since before IonQ was a public company. I’ve been following the quantum computing space for over 25 years. I’ve actually been following IonQ’s progress in foundational research, since probably the mid to late ’90s.
And in fact, Chris Monroe, our Founder, I would argue, kicked off the physical manifestation of Dr. Richard Feynman’s work in theoretical space in the 70s. And so IonQ has been thinking about the commercialization of quantum computing a long time. Peter and I have been talking for a while on how we can work together on a more full time basis. And since we’ve expanded aggressively and successfully into quantum networking in the past six months, both organically and via a couple seminal acquisitions, the need for more bandwidth at the top of the company, so to speak, has increased, and we felt the full year results was a good time to make that evolution happen. Peter’s not going
