At the core of every great company is its people.
Seeqc’s founding team has experience designing and manufacturing full-stack superconductive circuits and full cryogenic systems, from both a technical and business perspective, and are well-known members of the global quantum and high-performance computing communities.
Leadership
John Levy
Co-CEO, Chair, and
Co-Founder
John Levy
Co-CEO, Chair, and
Co-Founder
John Levy has worked at the intersection of technology and finance for more than 35 years.
Prior to co-founding Seeqc in 2018, John served as the Chair of Hypres for 8 years where he remains as a member of the board; he serves on the board of goTenna, an ad hoc mesh networking company; he helped create and became the founding Chair of PlusN, a carrier aggregation software company; and, for seven years, he served as the Chair of BioLite, a distributed energy company. John also joined the investment committee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation overseeing a $450m endowment in 2012 and became Chair in 2017.
John was a founding partner at L Capital Partners where he led investments in the technology sector and served on the boards of WiSpry (acquired), OnPATH Technologies (acquired), HiGTek (acquired), and Peek, among others. Before that, he was a partner in the Shalom Equity Fund, a seed stage tech fund based in the US and Israel.
John served as founding CEO of ePlanet, a pioneering computer vision company funded by Intel Corp and Vulcan Ventures. Before that, he worked at Interval Research Corporation, a Palo Alto based development lab sponsored by Paul Allen and was a general partner of Ariel Securities Corp., an NASD-licensed broker/dealer specializing in venture capital and media-based investments.
Since 1997, John has served as a board member of the Cathay Investment Fund, a private equity fund with over $1B invested in Chinese companies. He also served on the boards of VisionSense (acquired), Adjungo Networks (acquired) and Ovex (IPO) and was an advisor to Tseng Labs (IPO) and Advanced Medical Imaging (IPO). John has served on the board of Bend the Arc and was chairman of the organization from 2000-2006 overseeing the merger of two non-profits.
John earned an AB from Amherst College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Oleg Mukhanov, PhD
Co-CEO, CTO, and
Co-Founder
Oleg Mukhanov, PhD
Co-CEO, CTO, and
Co-Founder
Oleg Mukhanov has more than 30 years of experience in superconducting electronics and is recognized as a leader in the field.
Prior to founding Seeqc, for 27 years Oleg held roles of increasing responsibility at Hypres, the world leader in high-performance superconducting electronics. He joined Hypres to initiate the development of Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) superconductor circuit technology, which he co-invented in 1985 while a PhD student at Moscow State University. Over the years at Hypres, Oleg designed and demonstrated a number of world-record-setting digital circuits. He also has initiated and led many projects on high-performance superconductor digital, mixed signal, and analog circuits based on RSFQ logic and its derivatives. These include circuits and devices for data processors and memory, radio frequency signal reception, signal and time digital processing, cryogenic interfaces for a variety of applications including high-end computing, instrumentation, wireless communications, radar, and electronic warfare.
Oleg co-invented and led the development of a new generation of energy-efficient single flux quantum (SFQ) technology and superconducting ferromagnetic and superconducting spintronic random-access memories for energy efficient computing systems. He also co-invented a Digital-RF architecture and led the development of the cryocooled Digital-RF receiver system based on RSFQ logic – the world’s first commercial-grade use of superconducting digital technology.
From 2005-2007, Oleg was president of the US Committee on Superconducting Electronics. He was a long-time editor of the IEEE Transactions of Applied Superconductivity journal and received an IEEE outstanding service recognition as an editor of special issues. Oleg is a Fellow of IEEE, active in the IEEE Quantum Future Directions Initiative, and a member of the American Physical Society. He is the recipient of The IEEE Award for Continuing and Significant Contributions in the Field of Small Scale Applied Superconductivity. Oleg has authored and co-authored over 200 scientific papers, book chapters, and patents.
Oleg earned a PhD in physics from Moscow State University and an MS (with honors) in electrical engineering from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute.
Matthew Hutchings, PhD
Chief Product Officer,
Co-Founder
Matthew Hutchings, PhD
Chief Product Officer,
Co-Founder
Matt Hutchings has extensive experience in both research and commercialization of quantum computing technology.
Following a PhD in experimental physics at Cardiff University, Matt joined the Plourde Quantum Research Lab at Syracuse University, as a postdoctoral researcher, where he focused on the development of novel superconducting quantum circuits.
At Syracuse, he was the lead experimental Postdoc for an international project with Saarland University to develop a novel superconducting metamaterial device and led a collaborative project with the IBM quantum computing team, to develop a scalable qubit element. This IBM collaboration successfully delivered a novel quantum computing element that was incorporated into a number of their state-of-the-art quantum processor architectures.
Matt advanced research developments of Seeqc’s underlying SFQu-class technology, through a collaboration between the Plourde team at Syracuse, the McDermott team at University of Wisconsin Madison and Hypres, the inventors of the technology.
Having recognized the commercial value of this technology, Matt joined the Quantum Technology Enterprise Centre fellowship program at Bristol University, a startup accelerator program aimed at providing the vital business training required to form a company in deep tech. Through this program, he partnered with the team at Hypres to form Seeqc.
Board
John Levy
Co-CEO, Chair, and
Co-Founder, Seeqc
John Levy
Co-CEO, Chair, and
Co-Founder
John Levy has worked at the intersection of technology and finance for more than 35 years.
Prior to co-founding Seeqc in 2018, John served as the Chair of Hypres for 8 years where he remains as a member of the board; he serves on the board of goTenna, an ad hoc mesh networking company; he helped create and became the founding Chair of PlusN, a carrier aggregation software company; and, for seven years, he served as the Chair of BioLite, a distributed energy company. John also joined the investment committee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation overseeing a $450m endowment in 2012 and became Chair in 2017.
John was a founding partner at L Capital Partners where he led investments in the technology sector and served on the boards of WiSpry (acquired), OnPATH Technologies (acquired), HiGTek (acquired), and Peek, among others. Before that, he was a partner in the Shalom Equity Fund, a seed stage tech fund based in the US and Israel.
John served as founding CEO of ePlanet, a pioneering computer vision company funded by Intel Corp and Vulcan Ventures. Before that, he worked at Interval Research Corporation, a Palo Alto based development lab sponsored by Paul Allen and was a general partner of Ariel Securities Corp., an NASD-licensed broker/dealer specializing in venture capital and media-based investments.
Since 1997, John has served as a board member of the Cathay Investment Fund, a private equity fund with over $1B invested in Chinese companies. He also served on the boards of VisionSense (acquired), Adjungo Networks (acquired) and Ovex (IPO) and was an advisor to Tseng Labs (IPO) and Advanced Medical Imaging (IPO). John has served on the board of Bend the Arc and was chairman of the organization from 2000-2006 overseeing the merger of two non-profits.
John earned an AB from Amherst College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Dr. Oleg Mukhanov
Co-CEO, CTO, and
Co-Founder, Seeqc
Oleg Mukhanov, PhD
Co-CEO, CTO, and
Co-Founder
Oleg Mukhanov has more than 30 years of experience in superconducting electronics and is recognized as a leader in the field.
Prior to founding Seeqc, for 27 years Oleg held roles of increasing responsibility at Hypres, the world leader in high-performance superconducting electronics. He joined Hypres to initiate the development of Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) superconductor circuit technology, which he co-invented in 1985 while a PhD student at Moscow State University. Over the years at Hypres, Oleg designed and demonstrated a number of world-record-setting digital circuits. He also has initiated and led many projects on high-performance superconductor digital, mixed signal, and analog circuits based on RSFQ logic and its derivatives. These include circuits and devices for data processors and memory, radio frequency signal reception, signal and time digital processing, cryogenic interfaces for a variety of applications including high-end computing, instrumentation, wireless communications, radar, and electronic warfare.
Oleg co-invented and led the development of a new generation of energy-efficient single flux quantum (SFQ) technology and superconducting ferromagnetic and superconducting spintronic random-access memories for energy efficient computing systems. He also co-invented a Digital-RF architecture and led the development of the cryocooled Digital-RF receiver system based on RSFQ logic – the world’s first commercial-grade use of superconducting digital technology.
From 2005-2007, Oleg was president of the US Committee on Superconducting Electronics. He was a long-time editor of the IEEE Transactions of Applied Superconductivity journal and received an IEEE outstanding service recognition as an editor of special issues. Oleg is a Fellow of IEEE, active in the IEEE Quantum Future Directions Initiative, and a member of the American Physical Society. He is the recipient of The IEEE Award for Continuing and Significant Contributions in the Field of Small Scale Applied Superconductivity. Oleg has authored and co-authored over 200 scientific papers, book chapters, and patents.
Oleg earned a PhD in physics from Moscow State University and an MS (with honors) in electrical engineering from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute.
Jason Whitmire
General Partner,
Blueyard Capital
Jason Whitmire
General Partner,
Blueyard Capital
Jason Whitmire is co-founder and general partner at BlueYard Capital, an early stage VC firm that invests globally across technology categories. Previously he was a general partner at Earlybird Venture Capital from 2010-2015. Until June 2010 Jason served as General Manager and Vice President at Wind River Systems, where he founded and managed the company’s high growth mobile business. Following Wind River’s acquisition by Intel Jason advised Intel on its mobile software strategy. Previously Jason was shareholder and Managing Director of open source real-time Linux provider FSMLabs Inc. and played a key role in its acquisition by Wind River in 2007. At FSMLabs Jason ran the company’s global business, growing it to serve over 50 Fortune 500 companies. Prior to that Mr. Whitmire co-founded the software business at Infineon Technologies, where he led global licensing for Infineon’s wireless software subsidiary, Comneon GmbH. During his four years at Infineon Jason helped build Comneon into one of the fastest growing mobile device software companies in history.
Earlier, Jason served in a variety of director level and management roles at Group 3G UMTS (Telefonica / Sonera MVNO) and Telecom Italia. Before that, Jason served in the US government as an Officer to the US Department of State under the Clinton Administration. In 1994 and 1995 he received two of the Department’s exceptional performance awards for work recognized by then-US Vice President Al Gore. He received his bachelor and master’s degrees in politics and economics at the University of Texas and the American University.
Mike Messemer
Asset Management
Mike Messemer
Asset Management
Michael is the venture capital manager at Asset Management Company where he focuses on investing in early stage companies and international venture funds. In addition to SeeQC, he serves on the board of directors at Hypres, Dianomic, Trucentive, BabyPage and the Franklin and Catherine Johnson Foundation. Previously, Michael spent ten years in the United States Navy as an F/A-18 Hornet pilot. While attached to USS Nimitz he flew combat missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and subsequently completed tours in Japan and Bahrain. Personally, he enjoys playing golf, skiing, camping and fishing. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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