Dr. Broz has responsibility for driving commercial quantum applications and business adoption of advanced quantum computing capabilities. Joe joined IBM Quantum in March 2021 as the founding Executive Director and Chairman of the Federally chartered quantum consortium (QED-C) under the National Quantum Initiative Act. He has supported Defense, Air Force, Homeland Security, and other departments and agencies through research and consulting contracts, and advisory groups. Prior to that, he served as VP of Applied Sciences at SRI, where he led six laboratories in applied science, government business development, technical and business strategy. He also served as VP of Business Development and Research at Titanium Metals, and Laboratory Director at Tenneco, Inc., where he was responsible for product development, manufacturing operations, quality, technology and environmental management across several corporate divisions worldwide. He served as a White House Fellow for the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the administration of George H.W. Bush. He has been a British American Fellow at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and a Senior Fellow for National Security at NORC at the University of Chicago. Broz has a B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute (ETH) in Zurich.