Mr. Benno Broer is the CCO at PASQAL, a full-stack quantum hardware player offering quantum processors based on neutral atom qubit technology. Benno is also the Vice-President of the board at QuIC, the European quantum industry association and a member of the Research and Innnovation Advisory Group (RIAG) of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. Previously Benno was the founder and CEO of Qu&Co, one of Europe’s leading quantum-software businesses focused on quantum simulation and quantum-enhanced machine learning for chemistry, materials science, multiphysics simulation and finance. In December 2021 Qu&Co and PASQAL merged. Benno is an experimental quantum physics who graduated from Delft University (NL) in 1998 and he holds an MBA from INSEAD (France). Benno is a serial entrepreneur and started his career at a.o. The Boston Consulting Group and private equity firm Alpinvest.