MASTER INVESTOR SHOW 2025

Ilyas Khan

Chief Product Officer, Quantinuum

Ilyas is the founder and Chief Product Officer of Quantinuum – the company created as a result of the merger of Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Cambridge Quantum in Nov 2021. He is also the Vice Chairman of the company and its second largest shareholder after Honeywell.

Ilyas is the Leader in Residence at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School where he was instrumental in establishing the highly regarded Accelerate Cambridge program of investment in early-stage Cambridge-based deep-science technology companies.

Ilyas was the inaugural Chairman of The Stephen Hawking Foundation, holding the post until 2019. He is also the founding Chairman (non-executive) of the Topos Institute. He is also a fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge.

Ilyas is recognised as one of the founders of the quantum computing industry world-wide, with Cambridge Quantum being the first start up in the quantum software and algorithm sector in 2014. He is a leading voice in the quantum computing and Ai industry globally.

In January 2024 Quantinuum announced that it had raised USD300m in a financing round that values the company at over USD5 billiion. Investors include JP Morgan Chase, Mitsui and Amgen. Previous investors include IBM and JSR Corp (Japan). The total capital invested in Quantinuum is over USD1.3billion.

Company profile: Quantinuum

Quantinuum, the world’s largest integrated quantum company, pioneers powerful quantum computers and advanced software solutions. Quantinuum’s technology drives breakthroughs in materials discovery, cybersecurity, and next-gen quantum AI. With almost 500 employees, including 370+ scientists and engineers, Quantinuum leads the quantum computing revolution across continents. Quantinuum’s key shareholders are Honeywell and founder, Ilyas Khan. In January 2024 Quantinuum revealed details of a funding round that valued the company at over USD5billion.

www.quantinuum.com