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. He has served as IonQ’s CEO since February 2025 and was named Chairman of the Board in August 2025. Prior to that, Niccolo served on IonQ’s board of directors since 2021.
Over the course of his career, Niccolo has served on the boards of 14 public companies including IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), Xura (NASDAQ: MESG), Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU), Monstermob (LSE: MOB), Rush Street Interactive (NYSE: RSI), Genius Sports Group (NYSE: GENI), Resideo (NYSE: REZI), Planet (NYSE: PL), and six dMY Technology Group blank cheque vehicles. He has immense public market corporate governance experience having chaired or served on compensation, nominating and governance, and audit committees for over a decade. Niccolo also has extensive global market experience as a three-time public company CEO and a three-time private company CEO, and was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Glu Mobile and of Monstermob before the age of 30.
Niccolo has also served on several private boards including Chairing Carlyle-backed Jagex and General Catalyst-backed Ares Interactive. He has helped lead and consummate approximately 50 mergers and acquisitions and has helped raise over $5 billion in equity to support public and private companies he has led. He began his career in roles at JPMorgan, Siemens, and Technicolor.
Niccolo 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. He has been a member of the Leadership Council of the UCLA Grand Challenge for nearly a decade.