Marianna Bonanome Top Executive
Marianna Bonanome is a tech founder and executive operating at the convergence of Quantum & AI. As the Senior Director of Partnerships at Qunnect, she facilitates the strategic alliances and global ecosystems necessary to build the hardware infrastructure for a future quantum internet. Parallel to her leadership at Qunnect, Marianna is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dainamiq, a venture focused on the intersection of Quantum & AI.
With a career spanning doctoral research in quantum algorithms to leading AI strategy at SandboxAQ, she specializes in translating abstract mathematical potential into scalable, real-world technologies. A "founder-first" leader, Marianna excels at bridging the gap between industry, government, and academia to accelerate the deployment of deep-tech solutions. She is an active member of the XPRIZE Braintrust, an advisor to LibreTexts, NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Stony Brook University's CEWIT. Marianna holds a B.S. in Mathematics from NYU Tandon as well as master’s and doctoral degrees in Mathematics from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Super Industry:
Quantum Technology
Headquarters:
New York City Metropolitan Area
Followers:
3417
Title:
Senior Director of Partnerships
Company:
Qunnect
Company Industry:
Telecommunications
Company Website:
qunnect.inc
Company Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/qunnectinc/
Company Founded In:
2018
Company Size:
11-50
Current Job Duration:
6 mos
Country:
United States
Work Experience:
Title: Senior Director of Partnerships
Company: Qunnect
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qunnectinc/
Industry: Telecommunications
Company Size: 11-50
Location: Hybrid
Country: None
Employment Type: Part-time
Start At: 02-2026
Ends At: Present
Description: Qunnect is a pioneer in field-deployable, entanglement-based quantum networking. Based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the company builds the foundational hardware, including the flagship Carina product suite, required to transform existing telecommunications infrastructure into a scalable Quantum Internet. Qunnect’s atom-based technology is uniquely engineered to operate at room temperature on standard fiber-optic cables, enabling the next generation of secure communications, distributed quantum computing, and precision sensing.
Title: Co-founder & CEO
Company: Dainamiq
Company URL: None
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: New York City Metropolitan Area
Country: None
Employment Type: Part-time
Start At: 02-2026
Ends At: Present
Description: None
Title: Co-founder, Strategic Advisor
Company: Rationarium
Company URL: None
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: United States
Country: None
Employment Type: Part-time
Start At: 05-2021
Ends At: Present
Description: Rationarium is a deep-tech consultancy and platform provider focused on the democratization of STEM education. We specialize in open-source assessment infrastructure and AI-enhanced content management for higher education. As Co-Founder, I provide strategic guidance on the intersection of educational ecosystems and emerging tech innovation, ensuring that quality academic content remains accessible, secure, and scalable.
Title: Industry Advisor
Company: NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/school/nyutandonschoolofengineering/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: Part-time
Start At: 10-2025
Ends At: Present
Description: None
Title: Global Visioneering Braintrust Member
Company: XPRIZE
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/x-prize-foundation/
Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management
Company Size: 51-200
Location: New York City Metropolitan Area
Country: None
Employment Type: Part-time
Start At: 03-2023
Ends At: Present
Description: Global Visioneering is an annual prize design discovery process led by XPRIZE Grand Challenge Area experts (Domain Leads) and Brain Trust members (world-renowned innovators, thought leaders, industry experts, and entrepreneurs) to solicit radical moonshot ideas for further development and fundraising.
Title: Advisor
Company: Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) At Stony Brook University
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stony-brook-cewit/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Remote
Country: None
Employment Type: Part-time
Start At: 06-2025
Ends At: Present
Description: None
Title: Strategic Advisor
Company: LibreTexts
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/libretexts/
Industry: Education Management
Company Size: 1-10
Location: California, United States
Country: None
Employment Type: Part-time
Start At: 04-2025
Ends At: Present
Description: Advisory Board Member
Title: Head of AI Data Partnerships & Adoption
Company: SandboxAQ
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sandboxaq/
Industry: Computer Software
Company Size: 51-200
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: Full-time
Start At: 08-2025
Ends At: 02-2026
Description: Spearhead the adoption and engagement strategy for key AI simulation products (open source datasets & models).
Title: Head of AI Strategy and Partnerships
Company: SandboxAQ
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sandboxaq/
Industry: Computer Software
Company Size: 51-200
Location: New York City Metropolitan Area
Country: None
Employment Type: Full-time
Start At: 09-2024
Ends At: 07-2025
Description: Lead our AI team in driving innovation, integration, and growth across our organization.
Title: Head of External Education Programs
Company: SandboxAQ
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sandboxaq/
Industry: Computer Software
Company Size: 51-200
Location: New York City Metropolitan Area
Country: None
Employment Type: Full-time
Start At: 05-2022
Ends At: 08-2024
Description: SandboxAQ
Title: Community Manager | Executive Board Member
Company: The WeBWorK Project
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/64656583/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 03-2020
Ends At: 05-2022
Description: WeBWork is an open-source online homework system for STEM courses. WeBWorK is supported by the MAA and the NSF and comes with a Open Problem Library (OPL) of over 35,000 homework problems. Formed in 2018, The WeBWorK Project (TWP) is a large volunteer community that supports the WeBWorK open source software. Members of TWP contribute new questions and features to WeBWorK, curate the open problem library, respond to help requests on the forum, and communicate WeBWorK advancements and research at conferences and in university settings.
Title: Co-founder & Co-director of the CUNY OER WeBWorK Fellows Project
Company: The City University of New York
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/school/4362/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: Part-time
Start At: 01-2020
Ends At: 05-2022
Description: Supported by CUNY Central OER and LibreTexts funding, our faculty fellows have been diligently collecting, curating and aligning CUNY-wide WeBWorK content with open source texts for the benefit of all. Our collaboration encompasses City Tech, BMCC, City College, LaGuardia, BCC, Queensborough CC, Queens College, the greater WeBWorK community including the WebWorK Project (TWP) and industry partners.
Title: Associate Professor
Company: The City University of New York
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/school/4362/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Country: None
Employment Type: Full-time
Start At: 09-2008
Ends At: 05-2022
Description: City Tech has an enrollment of more than 17,000 students in over 66 baccalaureate, associate, and specialized certificate programs including several engineering technology fields as well as architecture, construction, nursing, hospitality management, entertainment technology, dental hygiene, vision care technology, technology teacher training and paralegal training. Non-degree continuing education is also offered, and serves approximately 14,000 students each year. City Tech is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
Title: Co-cordinator, Writing Across the Curriculum
Company: The City University of New York
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/school/4362/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: New York City College of Technology, CUNY
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 01-2014
Ends At: 06-2018
Description: The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program encourages courses throughout the college to incorporate formal and informal writing into the course practices and requirements.
Title: Committee Member
Company: MAA Committee for Technology in Math Education (CTME)
Company URL: None
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 09-2019
Ends At: 05-2022
Description: The mission of the Committee on Technologies in Mathematics Education is to synthesize and disseminate innovative research, resources, and practices on technology that lead to effective teaching and learning in undergraduate mathematics.
Title: Co-PI | Co-director of the Faculty Seminar
Company: Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Title V Cooperative Arrangement Grant
Company URL: None
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 11-2015
Ends At: 01-2022
Description: “Opening Gateways to Completion: Open Digital Pedagogies for Student Success in STEM” is a 5-year, $3.2 million grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions program (Title V). The goal is to support student success in mathematics courses that serve as gateways to STEM disciplines, courses that often act as barriers to progress and completion in these disciplines. The project, awarded jointly to the New York City College of Technology (lead) and the Borough of Manhattan Community College (partner) in 2015, brings the two institutions together in a cross-campus collaboration that will introduce open-source digital technologies, open educational resources, and active learning pedagogies into the sequence of high-enrollment mathematics courses required for STEM disciplines at each college.
Education:
School: Harvard Business School
Degree: Certificate in Negotiation Mastery, Business Administration and Management, General
Activities: None
School: The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics
Activities: None
School: The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY
Degree: Master's degree, Mathematics
Activities: None
School: NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Degree: Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics
Activities: None
Headline:
Senior Director of Partnerships at Qunnect | Co-Founder & CEO Dainamiq