IonQ, a quantum company, has announced the appointment of Scott Millard as Chief Business Officer, succeeding Rima Alameddine, who will remain in an advisory role during the transition. Reporting to Chairman and CEO Niccolo de Masi, Millard will lead sales strategy, customer success, and go-to-market execution as IonQ seeks to expand adoption of its quantum computing, networking, sensing, and security offerings.
Masi stated, “As we look ahead at commercialising all segments of our full-stack quantum solution, we believe that Scott’s 30+ years of sales leadership in technology will play a key role in expanding our lead in the quantum industry. In particular, his deep expertise in AI will be an important complement to IonQ’s strength in creating and selling quantum + AI solutions.”
Millard previously served as Senior Vice President of Global AI Sales at Dell Technologies, where he oversaw a business exceeding $20 billion and supported major AI-focused enterprises and cloud service providers. His earlier roles at Dell and EMC included responsibility for multibillion-dollar data centre, enterprise, and channel sales portfolios. IonQ highlighted its recent milestones, including world-record two-qubit gate fidelity and growing customer adoption of its Forte-series systems by users such as AWS, AstraZeneca, and NVIDIA. The company plans to accelerate its roadmap toward delivering quantum systems with 2 million qubits by 2030.