Alain Aspect has served as Non-Executive Chair of the Pasqal Board since August 2026. Dr. Aspect is one of the founders of Pasqal and currently serves as Chair of Pasqal's Scientific Advisory Board, a position he has held since 2023. Dr. Aspect also served as a scientific advisor of Pasqal from 2019 to 2024. Prior to his work at Pasqal, Dr. Aspect served as a member of the board of Essilor between 2001 and 2012. Dr. Aspect is a Professor at the Institut d'Optique - Université Paris-Saclay, a professor emeritus at École Polytechnique (Institut Polytechnique de Paris), a senior scientist emeritus at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), and is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Technologies. Dr. Aspect is co-recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for his experimental work on Bell inequalities, probing the foundations of quantum physics "and pioneering quantum information science". He is a member of several national science academies, including those of Austria, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Dr. Aspect's awards include the French National Centre for Scientific Research gold medal (2005), the Wolf Prize (2010), the Niels Bohr International Gold Medal (2013), the Albert Einstein medal (2013), the UNESCO Niels Bohr Gold Medal (2013), and the Balzan Prize for Quantum Information Processing and Communication (2013). Dr. Aspect is an alumnus of ENS Cachan (now ENS Paris-Saclay) and earned his Ph.D. in physics at the Institut d'Optique - Université d'Orsay (now Université Paris-Saclay).
Nicolas Berdou has served as a director of Pasqal since August 2026, serving as the permanent representative (représentant permanent) of Bpifrance Investissement, which is the legal entity (personne morale) designated as a director. Mr. Berdou has served as a Senior Investment Director at Bpifrance Investissement, the French public investment bank, since November 2017, where he leads venture capital investments in technology, deep-tech and defense companies, including on behalf of the Fonds Innovation Défense and Definvest funds established with the French Ministry of the Armed Forces. Mr. Berdou has served as a director of Pasqal SAS since April 2021 and as a director of Pasqal Holding SAS since February 2026, and has served as a member of its audit committee and remuneration committee. Over the last nine years, Mr. Berdou has served as a member of the board of directors of eleven companies as a representative of a French public entity, including deep-tech companies within the Bpifrance portfolio such as SiPearl, Unseenlabs, Exotrail and Cailabs. Prior to joining Bpifrance, Mr. Berdou spent the earlier part of his career at the French Direction Générale de l’Armement, where he held technical, supervisory and program management positions in aeronautical programs, including the Rafale fighter aircraft program, and he is an ingénieur en chef de l’armement. Mr. Berdou holds an engineering degree in aeronautics from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Constructions Aéronautiques (ENSICA) in Toulouse, France.
Michael Blitzer has served as a director of Pasqal since August 2026. Mr. Blitzer is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inflection Point Asset Management LLC ("Inflection Point"), an investment firm focused on companies at the intersection of national security, technology, and critical infrastructure. He has led Inflection Point's portfolio of 10 public listings, raising more than $5 billion in capital, and has directed billions of dollars in strategic mergers and acquisitions to scale portfolio companies, including Intuitive Machines' acquisition of Lanteris Space Systems and USA Rare Earth's $3 billion acquisition of Serra Verde and Less Common Metals. Mr. Blitzer is the Executive Chairman of USA Rare Earth, Inc. (Nasdaq: USAR, formerly Inflection Point II), which he has overseen from its $800 million public listing to a current market capitalization of approximately $8 billion, including a $3 billion public-private partnership with the United States Government. He led the public listing of Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR, formerly Inflection Point I), where he continues to serve as a director; in 2024, Intuitive Machines became the first private enterprise to land on the Moon, with its IM-1 mission. Mr. Blitzer is Lead Director of Merlin Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRLN, formerly Inflection Point IV), an AI-enabled autonomous flight company, and a director of Pasqal Holding SAS, a quantum computing company for which Inflection Point led a $250 million PIPE. He is expected to join the boards of Quantum Space (NYSE: QSPC, currently Inflection Point VI / IPFX) and Ursa Major (Nasdaq: URSA, currently Inflection Point Mach X / IPXX) upon the closing of their respective business combinations, and he remains Chairman of the Board of Inflection Point VII (Nasdaq: IPXG), which has announced a business combination with Elroy Air, and of Inflection Point VIII (Nasdaq: IPHX). Prior to founding Inflection Point, Mr. Blitzer was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kingstown Capital Management, an investment firm he founded in 2004 with author and investor Joel Greenblatt and grew into a multi-billion-dollar asset manager serving some of the world's largest endowments and foundations, which he led until 2021. He began his career at J.P. Morgan in 1999, advising companies globally on private debt and equity capital raising transactions. Mr. Blitzer taught courses at Columbia Business School in the 2010s and later served on the board of the Heilbrunn Center for Investing at Columbia Business School. He holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a B.S. from Cornell University.
Dr. Wasiq Bokhari has served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board since March 2026. Dr. Bokhari has served in various capacities at Pasqal including as President (Président) since March 2026, as Executive Chairman from January 2024 to Aug 2026 and as an advisor to the Board from September 2023 to January 2024. Dr. Bokhari also served as the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Product Officer in Residence at TONOMUS, the digital division of NEOM, from August 2023 until October 2024. Prior to that, Dr. Bokhari served as the Director and Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Initiatives at Amazon from May 2017 until June 2022, where he led a 300-person team to build and scale live-streamed marketplaces, consumer devices, and real-time machine learning solutions for video optimization, and played a pivotal role in initiating Amazon’s foray into quantum computing. Before Amazon, Dr. Bokhari served at Google, where he led moonshot initiatives in smart cities, including the creation of Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Google, Dr. Bokhari served as a partner at Draper Nexus, a venture capital firm focused on cutting-edge technology ventures, and as an Entrepreneur in Residence at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) focusing on deep technology investments. Earlier in his career, Dr. Bokhari founded a series of technology companies spanning enterprise middleware, chemical and biological threat detection sensors, inkjet-printed photodiodes for diagnostics, and a robotics-based tracking system for large scale solar projects, which was acquired by SolarCity (now Tesla). Prior to his entrepreneurial career, he was a faculty member in the department of physics at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Bokhari holds a Ph.D. in Physics and dual undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His Ph.D. thesis was one of the discovery modes of the top quark at Fermilab.
Michel Combes has served as a director of Pasqal since August 2026. Mr. Combes currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Lambda and, since June 2022, as Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Brightspeed, a broadband services company. Mr. Combes previously served as Chief Executive Officer and President of SoftBank Group International from June 2020 to June 2022, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Sprint (formerly NYSE: S) from January 2018 until April 2020. His prior leadership roles also include Chief Executive Officer of Altice N.V., Chief Executive Officer of Alcatel-Lucent (formerly NYSE: ALU), Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Europe, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of TDF Group, and Chief Financial Officer and senior executive vice president of France Telecom. Mr. Combes currently serves on the board of directors of F5, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM), and e& (formerly Etisalat) (AED: EAND). He has previously served on the board of directors of SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFI), WeWork Inc. (formerly NYSE: WE), and several private companies. Mr. Combes received an M.S. degree from École Polytechnique with a focus in engineering and a doctorate from Paris Dauphine University.
Barbara Dalibard has served as a director of Pasqal since August 2026. From 2016 to 2021, Ms. Dalibard served as Chief Executive Officer of SITA, the world’s largest IT provider to the air transport industry, where she led innovation in global baggage, border, and aircraft systems. Prior to SITA, Ms. Dalibard served as Chief Executive Officer of SNCF Voyageurs from 2010 to 2016, managing France’s passenger rail services and launching the OUIGO low-cost train network. Earlier in her career, Ms. Dalibard held senior technology and telecommunications roles at France Télécom and Orange, including serving as CEO of Orange Business Services, where she expanded enterprise telecom and IT services across 220 countries, and as head of Alcanet International, an Alcatel subsidiary. Ms. Dalibard is the Chair of the Michelin Supervisory Board (Euronext Paris: ML) and has been a board member since 2008. She has served on the board of directors of Rexel S.A. (Euronext Paris: RXL) since 2021. She has also served as a board member of Devoteam since 2021 and ATC Europe since 2024. She also holds a seat on the Académie des Technologies. Ms. Dalibard holds dual master’s degrees from Télécom ParisTech and École Normale Supérieure and is an honorary Corps des Mines engineer. She is an Officer of the Légion d’honneur and the Ordre national du Mérite and holds an Honorary Doctorate from École Polytechnique de Montréal.
Andrew Gundlach has served as a director of Pasqal since August 2026. Mr. Gundlach is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Bleichroeder LP, a registered investment advisor focused on ultra-high-net worth families. In April 2026, Mr. Gundlach resigned from his positions as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Gundlach was subsequently appointed to serve as Executive Chairman of the Board, effective April 29, 2026. Mr. Gundlach re-created Bleichroeder with the support of First Eagle, the successor to Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Holdings, Inc., which was renamed First Eagle Holdings in 2015 after private equity funds managed by The Blackstone Group and Corsair Capital acquired a controlling stake in the company, a transaction Mr. Gundlach initiated, negotiated and helped architect. Mr. Gundlach joined Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Holdings, Inc. in 2006 to launch and co-run 21 April Funds Ltd., and soon thereafter served as a director to help negotiate and support the restructuring of the business via a minority investment from TA Associates. Thereafter, Mr. Gundlach continued to serve for over 15 years as a key director of this leading asset management firm in the public equity, high-yield municipal, and private credit markets with over $130 billion in assets under management. Since 2015 he has also headed Goldiron, a registered investment advisor focused on institutions and ultra-high-net-worth investors. Prior to joining Bleichroeder LP and First Eagle, Mr. Gundlach was a founding partner of Artemis Advisors, a hedge fund backed with a strategic investment from XL Capital of Bermuda, an insurance company. Mr. Gundlach co-chaired the Board of Directors of Materia, Inc. and led its sale to Exxon in December 2021, bringing Nobel Prize-winning technology with proprietary processes to commercial scale. Additionally, he was invited to invest alongside Sofina SA, a public Belgian company, in their recapitalization and investment into Cambridge Associates, the preeminent advisory firm in asset allocation, manager selection and alternative investments. Mr. Gundlach is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he has served on the Investment Committee, and is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School’s Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing, where he teaches courses on investing, and currently serves on the School’s Board and Endowment Board. In addition, Mr. Gundlach currently serves on the Board of Directors of Welltower (NYSE: WELL), a publicly traded health care infrastructure REIT. Mr. Gundlach began his career in the Investment Banking and M&A departments of Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan. He holds a BS and a Masters in International Relations and Affairs from Georgetown University, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Jean Raby has served as a director of Pasqal since August 2026, serving as the designee of EIC Fund. Since 2022, Mr. Raby has served as a Partner and Chief Client and Business Development Officer of Astorg, a pan-European private equity firm, where he is responsible for investor relations and business development, and is a member of the Executive Committee. Prior to joining Astorg, Mr. Raby was a founding sponsor and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Odyssey Acquisition S.A., a special purpose acquisition company listed on Euronext Amsterdam, which combined with BenevolentAI in 2022. From 2017 to 2021, Mr. Raby served as Chief Executive Officer of Natixis Investment Managers and Head of Asset and Wealth Management for Natixis. From 2013 to 2016, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial and Legal Officer of Alcatel-Lucent. Earlier in his career, Mr. Raby spent nearly two decades at Goldman Sachs, which he joined in 1996 in Paris, where he was named Managing Director in 2002 and Partner in 2004, later serving as Head of Investment Banking for France, Belgium and Luxembourg and, from 2011, as Co-Head of the firm’s operations in Russia. He began his career as a corporate lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and Paris. Mr. Raby has served on the board of directors of AerCap Holdings N.V. (NYSE: AER), Fiera Capital Corporation (TSX: FSZ), SNC-Lavalin Group (now AtkinsRéalis) (TSX: ATRL) and BenevolentAI. Mr. Raby, a dual Canadian and French citizen and a retired member of the New York Bar, holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Université Laval, a Master of Philosophy in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School.
Georges-Olivier Reymond has served as a director of Pasqal since August 2026. Mr. Reymond is one of the founders of Pasqal and has served as Pasqal’s Chief Strategic Alliances Officer since April 2025. As Chief Strategic Alliances Officer, he plays a key role in forging strategic partnerships and implementing quantum programs with major global clients. Since September 2025, Mr. Reymond has also served as a director and General Manager of Pasqal Canada Inc., and as a director of Aeponyx Enterprises Inc., both of which are subsidiaries of Pasqal. Mr. Reymond previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Pasqal from its founding in March 2019 until April 2025 and as chairman of the Pasqal Board of Directors from April 2021 until April 2025. Prior to founding Pasqal, Mr. Reymond held leadership roles in R&D and project management at UnitySC and Safran, where he specialized in bringing advanced technologies from research to commercialization. Mr. Reymond holds a Ph.D. in Quantum Physics from Université Paris-Sud, where, under the supervision of Philippe Grangier, he pioneered neutral atom technology for quantum computing. In 2025, he received the Yves Rocard Award from the French Society of Physics for outstanding technology transfer.