The Leadership

Andrew Dzurak

CEO and founder

Andrew is a pioneer of silicon quantum dot quantum computing and has published more than 30 publications in Nature and Science family journals. He has also generated more than $25M income for UNSW since 2016.

Stefanie Tardo

Chief of Staff

Stef works alongside the CEO to manage corporate operations and growth at Diraq. She is a former private equity operative specialising in post acquisition strategy and value creation.

Boyar Naito

Vice President of Business Development

Boyar is a former Principal of Strategy and Business Development at Google X. He is passionate about building partnerships that accelerate deep tech innovation.

Chris Escott

Head of Engineering

A former engineering manager in the semiconductor industry, Chris has extensive experience in device engineering, product and IP development.

Andre Saraiva

Head of Solid-State Theory

Andre is a world leader in quantum chemistry and solid state physics, with publications on valley physics in silicon and collaborations with research groups in Madison, Madrid, Cambridge and Rio de Janeiro.

Wee Han Lim

Head of Measurement & Fabrication

Wee Han is a silicon qubit device fabrication expert. He has more than 10 years of experience in silicon qubit device design, micro- and nanofabrication as well as cryogenic electrical characterisation.

Henry Yang

Head of Quantum Control

Henry has developed proprietary qubit control code and is a world leader in silicon quantum dot qubit control. He was awarded MITTR: Top 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2021.

Arne Laucht

Head of Quantum Measurement

Arne is a technical expert in quantum measurement. He has been developing techniques for qubit measurement and control for more than 10 years.

Lasantha Thennakoon

CFO

Lasantha is a highly experienced CFO who has worked in large organisations including banks and with several start-ups.

William Jeffrey

Chairman

Andrew Dzurak

Director

Jason Cheong

Director

Will Zeng

Director

Eliathamby Ambikairajah

Director

Andrea Morello

Spin Dynamics and Education

Andrea Morello is a Scientia Professor of Quantum Engineering at UNSW, a Program Manager at CQC2T and Head of the Fundamental Quantum Technologies Lab. Besides being a celebrated science communicator, Andrea is a world-leading researcher behind many unprecedented accomplishments, such as the first coherent control and readout of individual electron spins in silicon and fault-tolerant level two qubit control fidelities in a silicon device.

Jarryd Pla

Readout and Control

Jarryd Pla is a Quantum Engineer in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at UNSW. He is a former Bragg Gold Medal winner and European Marie Curie International Fellow. He is an expert in spin qubits (having been instrumental to the first demonstration of single spin control and readout), superconducting quantum circuits (in particular quantum-noise-limited microwave amplifiers) and hybrid quantum technologies.