Leadership

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.

Dr. Loïc Henriet is Chief Technology Officer at Pasqal, where he leads the company's technology roadmap and the development of scalable, production-grade neutral-atom quantum computing systems. Having previously served as Chief Executive Officer guiding Pasqal through a decisive phase of growth and industrial scale-up, he now focuses his energy on the company's core technological challenges. He drives Pasqal's path toward fault-tolerant quantum computing while advancing analog quantum computing toward practical quantum advantage and works to tighten the integration of hardware, software and cloud. With deep expertise in quantum physics and engineering, Dr. Henriet plays a central role in translating Pasqal’s scientific foundation into industrial deployment. He holds an engineering degree from École Polytechnique, an MSc in Physics from École Normale Supérieure and a PhD in Theoretical Quantum Physics from École Polytechnique.   

Stéphane Rougeot is Chief Financial Officer at Pasqal, where he leads the company’s global finance organization and supports its capital markets readiness, financial operations and long-term growth strategy. He brings nearly three decades of finance leadership experience across technology, media and industrial companies, including senior finance roles at several publicly listed organizations. Prior to joining Pasqal, Stéphane served as CFO and Deputy CEO of Deezer S.A. (Euronext Paris), and held CFO roles at Signify N.V. (Euronext Amsterdam), and Technicolor S.A. (Euronext Paris), where he led financial transformation, investor relations, strategic execution and international expansion. Earlier in his career, he held finance and strategy roles at Total, Thomson Multimedia and Orange. Stéphane holds a degree from Sciences Po Paris and a postgraduate degree in international finance from Université Paris-Dauphine.

Dr. Georges-Olivier Reymond is Co-founder and Chief Strategic Alliances Officer at Pasqal, where he leads strategic partnerships and supports the development of quantum programs with global customers and ecosystem partners. A pioneer in neutral-atom quantum technology, he has spent more than two decades helping translate advanced scientific research into industrial applications. His contributions to the field date back to his PhD research with Philippe Grangier, including a landmark 2001 publication on the trapping of individual neutral atoms, a breakthrough that helped lay the scientific foundations for today's neutral-atom quantum computing systems. Prior to co-founding Pasqal in 2019, he held R&D and project leadership roles at UnitySC and Safran, where he focused on bringing advanced technologies from the lab to market. As Pasqal's founding CEO, he helped establish the company as a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, scale its international footprint and complete multiple strategic acquisitions. He holds a PhD in Quantum Physics from Université Paris-Sud.

Prof. Antoine Browaeys is Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Pasqal, where he helps guide the company’s scientific direction and advances its leadership in neutral-atom quantum computing. A pioneering researcher in quantum physics, he is a research director at CNRS and leads the Quantum Optics, Atoms team at the Charles Fabry Laboratory of the Institut d'Optique, where his work focuses on manipulating individual atoms with lasers to study many-body quantum systems. His research on trapped individual atoms, optical tweezer arrays and Rydberg atoms sits at the core of Pasqal’s technology platform. He co-founded Pasqal in 2019 and has received major scientific recognition, including the CNRS Silver Medal in 2021, his election to the French Academy of Sciences in 2023, and the ninth biennial John Stewart Bell Prize for pioneering contributions to quantum simulation and quantum computing with neutral atoms in optical tweezer arrays. Prof. Antoine Browaeys holds a PhD in Physics from Université Paris-Sud, now Université Paris-Saclay.  

Joëlle Lumb is Chief Human Resources Officer at Pasqal, where she leads the company’s people strategy, organizational transformation, leadership development, and culture agenda. She is bringing extensive experience in human resources leadership, organizational transformation and international business operations. She has operated at C-level for more than 15 years, advising executive teams through complex growth and transformation environments across global organizations. Her experience spans HR transformation and culture-building, post-merger integration, spin-offs, carve-outs, IPO readiness, restructuring, legal and compliance matters across organizations of significant scale. Prior to joining Pasqal, Joelle held senior HR leadership roles at NielsenIQ and Nielsen, where she led regional and global people strategies across Europe, EMEA and international markets. She began her career in commercial development, client project management and operations before moving into HR. Joelle holds an executive master’s in human resources from ESSEC Business School and an engineering degree in agronomy from ENSAR.

Roberto Mauro is Chief Product Officer at Pasqal, where he leads end-to-end product strategy and roadmap, translating frontier quantum technology into solutions that create value across industries. He brings 30 years of experience in strategy, business development, product, and innovation across Europe, Asia, and the US. Since joining Pasqal in 2024, Roberto has held several leadership roles, including General Manager for Korea, before becoming Chief Product Officer. Prior to Pasqal, he spent two decades in senior leadership positions at a major Asia-headquartered technology group, spanning strategy, product, business development, and marketing. He notably served as Managing Director Europe of the group’s Silicon Valley open-innovation unit, driving investments and partnerships across European ecosystems focused on data, AI, and quantum. Earlier in his career, he held international business development roles across Europe and Asia. At Pasqal, Roberto is focused on turning advances in neutral-atom quantum computing into scalable products and practical industrial applications. He holds an MSc in Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and an MBA from IMD.

Mark Armstrong is Chief Commercial Officer for EMEA and APAC at Pasqal, where he leads commercial strategy, sales execution, and customer expansion across two of the world’s fastest-growing technology regions. He brings over 30 years of technology sales and leadership experience, including nearly three decades at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and its predecessor companies. Most recently, he served as EMEA Vice President and General Manager for High Performance Computing and AI at HPE, where he helped shape the company’s AI go-to-market strategy, expand its high-performance computing presence, and lead major customer engagements. At Pasqal, Mark is focused on helping enterprise and government customers adopt neutral-atom quantum computing and translate advanced technology into practical business value. He holds a BSc in Business Studies from the University of Bradford. 

Dr. Véronique Dentan is Chief Production and Project Officer at Pasqal, where she oversees the company’s QPU production and delivery roadmap and leads the development of the processes, organization and execution model required to support scalable product delivery. She brings extensive executive experience in fast-growing high-tech companies across telecommunications, positioning, health technology and life sciences. Prior to joining Pasqal in April 2023, Dr. Dentan held several senior leadership roles, including Chief Operating Officer at Mauna Kea Technologies, where she played a key role in the development, regulatory approval and operational scale-up of the Cellvizio optical biopsy system. She holds a PhD in Physics and brings deep technical expertise in optics and instrumentation to her leadership at Pasqal. 

Adrien Signoles is Chief Hardware Officer at Pasqal, where he leads the development, scaling and industrialization of the company’s neutral-atom quantum processors. Since joining Pasqal in 2019 as one of its first quantum hardware engineers, he has played a central role in advancing the company’s hardware platform from academic research to industrial-grade quantum processing units. His team is focused on scaling Pasqal’s technology toward high-fidelity, large-scale quantum systems while supporting the production and commercialization of QPUs globally. Prior to joining Pasqal, Dr. Signoles conducted advanced research in quantum simulation with cold atoms at Heidelberg University and the Institut d’Optique. He holds a PhD in Quantum Physics from École Normale Supérieure in Paris. 

Florence Lao is Chief Legal Officer at Pasqal, bringing nearly 20 years of experience as an international business lawyer across corporate governance, capital markets, M&A, compliance and global commercial operations. Prior to joining Pasqal, she served as General Counsel and Board Secretary of Deezer and held senior legal roles at Adisseo, SMCP and Artemis. She began her career as an M&A lawyer at Latham & Watkins. Florence Lao holds degrees from Paris II Panthéon-Assas University, Paris-Dauphine University and the London School of Economics.

Mourad Beji is the Chief Software Officer at Pasqal. Mourad oversees the development of Pasqal’s software stack and quantum applications. The 3 main focuses of the Software organization is making Pasqal Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) accessible through the cloud and on-prem, programmable thanks to a high-performance quantum software stack, and solving real world use cases through state-of-the-art quantum algorithms and carefully designed hybrid solutions. Mourad is a graduate of École Polytechnique (X09), where he specialized in computer science and cryptography. He joined Pasqal in 2021 after a career in the software industry and in the deep-tech start-up ecosystem.

Barbara Bonneau is Chief Infrastructure Operations Officer at Pasqal, where she leads global operations and supports the company’s continued scale-up as it advances from deep-tech innovation to industrial execution. She brings more than 25 years of experience structuring and scaling technology and deep-tech organizations across large corporates, listed companies and fast-growing scale-ups, as well as highly technical sectors including nuclear, cryptography and quantum computing. Her background spans operational excellence, complex program leadership, C-level governance and talent development, with a focus on building resilient organizations capable of sustaining growth in global markets. Prior to joining Pasqal, she supported companies through periods of hypergrowth, transformation and international expansion. Barbara is an engineer from École Centrale Paris and holds a master’s degree from Stanford University.