Board of Directors

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.

Ms. Dorchak has spent over thirty years in operational leadership roles in the technology industry and has served as the Chief Executive Officer and advisor of GMD Enterprises, an advisory company, since July 2013. Prior to that, she served as an Executive Vice President and General Manager of Global Business with Spansion, Inc., a flash public semiconductor company. She started her career with 20 years at IBM Corporation, where she held a range of operating roles, including General Manager, PC Direct. She has served on the boards of GlobalFoundries Inc. (Nasdaq: GFS), a semiconductor foundry company, since May 2019, where she serves as the chair of its nominating and governance committee and is a member of its audit and risk committee.

Ms. Dorchak also previously served as an independent director on the boards of directors for Ansys Inc., (Nasdaq: ANSS), a software company, from July 2018 to July 2025, Wolfspeed, Inc. (NYSE: WOLF), a semiconductor company, from January 2020 to July 2025; Viavi Solutions Inc. (Nasdaq: VIAV), a network test, monitoring and assurance company, from November 2019 to October 2021, Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: MLNX), a multinational supplier of computer networking products from June 2009 to April 2020, Quantenna Communications (Nasdaq: QNTA), a pioneer in high-performance Wi-Fi semiconductor solutions, from June 2018 to July 2019, Energy Focus, Inc. (Nasdaq: EFOI), a technology innovation leader in energy-efficient LED lighting solutions from July 2015 to February 2019, and Intrinsyc Technologies Corporation (TSX: ITC), a trusted provider of high-performance engineering, software, and IT solutions for government and commercial partner from July 2006 to November 2008.

Mr. Fradin serves as SPAC’s Chief Executive Officer and as a director. Mr. Fradin brings almost 20 years of finance experience, including expertise in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, and special purpose acquisition companies. Mr. Fradin served as Executive Vice President of Osprey Technology Acquisition Corp., a blank check company, from 2019 to 2021, which successfully completed a $1.1 billion merger with BlackSky Technology (NYSE: BKSY) in September 2021. He also served as an Advisor for Juniper Industrial Holdings, Inc., leading its $1.9 billion merger with Janus International Group (NYSE: JBI) in June 2021. Additionally, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Juniper II Corp., a blank check company, and advised Broadscale Acquisition Corp., a blank check company. Broadscale Acquisition Corp. and Juniper II Corp. did not complete business combinations and redeemed all outstanding Class A ordinary shares in December 2022 and October 2023, respectively. Since its formation in September 2016, Mr. Fradin has served as Co-Founder and Managing Director at HEPCO Capital Management. HEPCO is a private investment firm that sponsors capital investments in diverse business sectors, particularly real estate, private operating companies and financial investments. Previously, he was an Investment Professional at JLL Partners from 2007 to 2015, a middle market private equity firm. From June 2005 to June 2007, he was an investment banker at Merrill Lynch & Co. Mr. Fradin holds an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Eliot Pence is a builder of frontier defense and industrial companies. He is the founder of Dominion Dynamics, a defense product company working to establish sovereign capability in aerospace, autonomy, and command-and-control, and serves as a board director of Xanadu (XNDU), a leading quantum company. From 2018 to 2022, Eliot led global growth at Anduril Industries, joining as one of the company’s earliest business development hires and playing a central role in building it into one of America’s most consequential defense technology companies. He later served as Chief Business Officer at Osmo and Cambium Biomaterials, where he led government and enterprise go-to-market efforts to translate frontier R&D into deployable platforms. Previously, he was a Senior Director at McLarty Associates, the Washington, DC-based advisory firm. In 2026, Eliot was appointed to Prime Minister Mark Carney's Advisory Committee on Canada-U.S. Economic Relations. Eliot is a graduate of the University of Victoria and Yale.

Ms. Reynolds has served as Chief Accounting Officer & Treasurer, Vice President at Reddit, Inc. (NYSE: RDDT), a social media and online community platform, since August 2021. Prior to Reddit, Ms. Reynolds served as Director of Reporting and Consolidations and other positions at Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP), a technology and social media company, from April 2016 to August 2021, Group Manager of U.S. Corporate Accounting and other positions at Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG), a multinational consumer goods corporation, from December 2012 to April 2016, and in Assurance Services as a Certified Public Accountant at Ernst & Young LLP from 2005 to 2012. Ms. Reynolds has also served as a member of the FASB Public Markets Advisory Committee at the Financial Accounting Standards Board since April 2025. Ms. Reynolds received a B.S. in Business in Accountancy from Miami University and is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Ohio.

Ms. Shyu has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Honorable Heidi Shyu, LLC, an aerospace and defense consulting company, since February 2025. Prior to Honorable Heidi Shyu, LLC, Ms. Shyu served as the Undersecretary of Defense for Research & Engineering at the United States Department of Defense from July 2021 to January 2025, President and Chief Executive Officer of Heidi Shyu Inc., an aerospace and defense consulting company, from February 2016 to July 2021, Assistant Secretary of the United States Army for Acquisition, Logistics & Technology and other roles with the United States Army, from 2010 to 2016, and prior to that, in various leadership roles at Raytheon Company, a defense contractor, and Hughes Aircraft Company, an aerospace and defense contractor. Ms. Shyu received her B.S.c. in Mathematics from the University of New Brunswick, an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Toronto, an M.S. in Systems Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, an Engineer’s Degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of New Brunswick.