Niccolo de Masi is an experienced public company chief executive officer and board member with expertise in deep tech, mobile, and creating enterprise software-hardware ecosystems. Today he is IonQ’s President & CEO, and serves on its Board nominating and governing and audit committee since sponsoring its IPO in 2020.
He has served on the Board of 14 public companies including IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), Xura (NASDAQ: MESG), Glu (NASDAQ: GLUU), Monstermob (LSE: MOB), Rush Street Interactive (NYSE: RSI), Genius Sports Group (NYSE: GENI), Resideo (NYSE: REZI) and Planet (NYSE: PL). He has also served on the board of six dMY Technology Group’s blank cheque vehicles. de Masi has extensive global market experience having been a public company CEO three times, and a private company CEO three times. He has immense public market corporate governance experience having chaired or served on compensation, audit, and nominating and governing committees for over a decade.
Over the course of his career, de Masi has helped lead and consummate approximately 50 mergers and acquisitions and has helped raise approximately $4 billion in equity to support public and private companies he has led. de Masi was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Glu and of Monstermob before the age of 30. He began his career in roles at JPMorgan, Siemens and Technicolor.
He has also served on several private Boards including Chairing Carlyle-backed Jagex and General Catalyst-backed Ares Interactive. He has been a member of the Leadership Council of the UCLA Grand Challenge for nearly a decade. de Masi received first class B.A. and M.Sci degrees in physics from Cambridge University where he specialized in quantum mechanics and next generation electron beam lithography.