Frank Schlichting joins SaxonQ as Co-CEO
Founders Marius Grundmann and Jan Meijer, both professors at Leipzig University, reinforce the four year old company’s leadership team.
Starting January 1st, Frank Schlichting takes over operational leadership and drive business development of the 20 head strong company forward.
Schlichting studied nuclear solid-state physics at TU Darmstadt, Germany, and UC Berkeley, USA, before completing his PhD in engineering sciences in the field of electron spectroscopy at TU Berlin. He brings extensive leadership experience from the technology sector: from technology development at VW Autostadt and chip development at Atmel, to advancing wireless communication systems at Nanotron and digitalizing solar systems at Solare Datensysteme. Most recently, as CEO of Kiwigrid, he developed a public cloud platform for decentralized energy supply – a topic closely tied to sector coupling, where quantum computers also hold great potential.
“My goal is to position SaxonQ as an established player in the market after its startup phase. To achieve this, we need even more experts who will not only continue developing our technology with our fantastic team but also create user-friendly products and introduce them to the market with the right strategies. If we can establish the mobile quantum computer as the industry standard, significantly advancing various sectors, my goal will be achieved,” Schlichting says.
SaxonQ is one of the few companies to integrate quantum phenomena into an industrial-grade computer that operates at room temperature and without extensive peripheral equipment. The key to this is diamond, the ideal material for highly precise, time-stable qubits.
