Biography

Mr. Weedbrook is our founder and has served as our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board of directors since September 2016 and as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of NewCo since its incorporation in October 2025. Prior to Xanadu, Mr. Weedbrook was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Toronto. Mr. Weedbrook has over a decade of industry, government and research experience in quantum computing. Mr. Weedbrook received a B.S. from the University of Queensland and a Ph.D. from the University of Queensland.