Dr. Chris Ballance serves as President, Quantum Computing. With over a decade of experience at the forefront of the quantum computing industry, Chris has set multiple world records in quantum computing performance including highest performance quantum logic gates, longest qubit memory coherence time, and the fastest and highest performance quantum network. Before joining IonQ, Chris founded and served as CEO of Oxford Ionics and scaled the company to over 100 employees across the globe. He holds a PhD in trapped-ion quantum computing from the University of Oxford, where he is also a FL Fellow.