Qblox, a leading provider of scalable quantum control stacks, has announced the appointment of Bauke van Rhijn as the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Bauke has thirteen years of experience in providing high-value strategic and operational financial support and leading multi-cultural and cross-functional teams in scale-up organizations.
Before joining Qblox, he spent close to six years with LUMICKS,a life science tools scale-up from Amsterdam as co-founder and CFO. He started his financial career at ING in the M&A and ECM departments in Amsterdam and London. More recently, he has advised multiple deep-tech scale-ups and the venture capital fund FORWARD.one. Bauke holds an MSc in Applied Physics from TU Delft.
Niels Bultink, co-founder and CEO of Qblox expressed his excitement about this new appointment, stating, “We are delighted to have Bauke join Qblox as CFO. Hissignificant knowledge and expertise in finance will be beneficial as we buildand extend our organization. We welcome him to our leadership team, underliningour commitment to long-term success. In his new role at Qblox, Bauke will spearhead critical financial responsibilities, including servingin a strategic role and advising on the maturation of the organization. His`extensive success in scaling deep-tech companies will be pivotal for theupcoming growth.” Bauke will join the existing board consisting of NielsBultink (CEO), Jules van Oven (CTO) and Eric Kievit (COO).
About Qblox
Qblox is a leading provider of scalable and modular quantum control stacks. Qblox operatesat the frontier of the quantum revolution in supporting academic and industriallabs worldwide with quantum control electronics.
The Qblox control stack, known as the Cluster, combines key technologies for qubit control and readout with a modular solution supporting a wide variety of customers and qubit platforms. The Qblox team is 90+ members strong and continues to innovate hardware and software that is qubit-type-agnostic, sophisticated, and scalable to support operations on thousands of qubits. For more information, visit https://www.qblox.com/