Headquarters:
Dallas, Texas, United States
Followers:
10270
Title:
Managing Partner
Company:
Quantonation
Company Website:
https://www.quantonation.com, https://www.memq.tech, https://metamorphoses-collection.org, https://www.pinctech.com/
Company Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/quantonation/
Company Founded In:
2018
Company Size:
1-10
Country:
United States
Work Experience:
Title: Managing Partner
Company: Quantonation
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/quantonation/
Industry: Venture Capital & Private Equity
Company Size: 1-10
Location: Paris, France and Boston, United States
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 2018
Ends At: Present
Description: Quantonation is an early stage Venture Fund dedicated to Quantum Technologies and Deep Physics. We're based in NYC/Dallas, USA and Paris, France and active worldwide.
We are always scouting for startups with values and projects that fit with our thesis and if this sounds like you, we would love to talk.
Title: Board Member
Company: memQ
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/80703769/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 03-2026
Ends At: Present
Description: None
Title: Board Member
Company: PINC Technologies
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pinctech/
Industry: Consumer Electronics
Company Size: 1-10
Location: Pasadena, California, United States
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 09-2025
Ends At: Present
Description: None
Title: Board Member
Company: Pioniq Technologies
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pioniq-technologies/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Country: None
Employment Type: Part-time
Start At: 02-2024
Ends At: Present
Description: None
Title: Board Member
Company: Qubit Pharmaceuticals
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qubit-pharmaceuticals/
Industry: Computer Software
Company Size: 51-200
Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 06-2020
Ends At: Present
Description: Qubit Pharmaceuticals is on a path to accelerate drug discovery with Quantum Physics. Our software suite runs on the world's largest supercomputers and we partner with Quantum Computing hardware vendors.
Title: Board Member
Company: Nord Quantique
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nord-quantique/
Industry: Computer Hardware
Company Size: 11-50
Location: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 2020
Ends At: Present
Description: Nord Quantique develops superconducting circuits that can mitigate errors on every individual qubit. It provides a faster pathway to fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Title: Board Member, Co-Founder
Company: PASQAL
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pasqal/
Industry: Information Technology And Services
Company Size: 201-500
Location: Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 04-2019
Ends At: Present
Description: Pasqal is building Quantum Information Processors made of neutral atoms arrays in 2D, for simulation of complex phenomena and high performance computing.
Title: Angel Investor
Company: Futurail
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/futurail/
Industry: Computer Software
Company Size: 1-10
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 10-2023
Ends At: Present
Description: Stealth mode startup for the rail industry
Title: Angel Investor
Company: incidences
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/incidences/
Industry: Renewables & Environment
Company Size: 11-50
Location: Montpellier, Occitanie, France
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 09-2023
Ends At: Present
Description: None
Title: Angel Investor
Company: Metis
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/metissrl/
Industry: Information Technology And Services
Company Size: 1-10
Location: On-site
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 12-2022
Ends At: Present
Description: Metis srl is an early stage startup that brings AI-powered software products to professionals worldwide. Try Legenda, our semantic search engine for private documents. Legenda is a GDPR compliant and secure solution perfect for document exploration as in due diligence, legal discovery, and more.
Title: Board Member
Company: Welinq
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/welinqquantum/
Industry: Information Technology And Services
Company Size: 11-50
Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Country: None
Employment Type: Part-time
Start At: 01-2023
Ends At: 03-2026
Description: On a mission to scale-up quantum computing by interconnecting quantum processors. Welinq provides a high-performance quantum memory to deploy hardware-agnostic and fullstack quantum links solutions in order to interconnect multiple quantum processing units.
Title: Treasurer Board Of Directors
Company: Unitary Fund
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unitary-fund/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: Part-time
Start At: 10-2021
Ends At: 12-2025
Description: The Unitary Fund is a non-profit helping create a quantum technology ecosystem that benefits the most people.
http://unitary.fund/
Title: Board Member
Company: QphoX
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qphox/
Industry: Computer Hardware
Company Size: 11-50
Location: Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 05-2021
Ends At: 06-2025
Description: QphoX is a quantum transduction company, building the world's first quantum modem™ device, connecting quantum computers across a quantum network. Their technology will form the backbone of the future quantum internet.
Title: Member of the Board, PINQ2, Platform for Digital and Quantum Innovation
Company: PINQ² - Plateforme d'innovation numérique et quantique
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pinq2/
Industry: Information Technology And Services
Company Size: 1-10
Location: Quebec, Canada
Country: None
Employment Type: Part-time
Start At: 02-2023
Ends At: 06-2024
Description: None
Title: Associate
Company: Creative Destruction Lab
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/school/creative-destruction-lab/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Toronto, Canada Area
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 2018
Ends At: 06-2024
Description: The Creative Destruction Lab is a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science-based companies. The Quantum Machine Learning Incubator Stream at CDL-Toronto brings together entrepreneurs, investors, AI experts, leading quantum information researchers, and quantum hardware companies to build ventures in the nascent domain of quantum competing software.
Title: Board Member
Company: HQS Quantum Simulations
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hqs-quantum-simulations/
Industry: Computer Software
Company Size: 11-50
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 01-2022
Ends At: 08-2023
Description: HQS provides software for material scientists in the chemical industry and academia that incorporates sophisticated quantum-level models of the properties of molecules and materials, giving researchers the deeper insights they need to identify the perfect solution.
Title: Mentor
Company: Duality Accelerator
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/79693553/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Country: None
Employment Type: Part-time
Start At: 09-2021
Ends At: 06-2023
Description: Duality is the first-of-its-kind accelerator aimed at supporting next-generation startups focused on quantum science and technology. The 12-month program provides world-class business and entrepreneurship training from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Polsky Center, and the networks, facilities, and programming from the Chicago Quantum Exchange, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Argonne National Laboratory, and P33.
In my role as a mentor, I support founders as they grow and scale their companies.
Title: Treasurer
Company: QuantX
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/quantxalumni/
Industry: Think Tanks
Company Size: 51-200
Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 05-2020
Ends At: 06-2023
Description: QuantX is an association of alumni of my alma mater grad. school - Ecole Polytechnique - that is working in support of the emergence of a quantum ecosystem.
Title: Member of the Governing Board
Company: European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC)
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/european-quantum-industry-consortium-quic/
Industry: Think Tanks
Company Size: 1-10
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 04-2021
Ends At: 05-2023
Description: None
Title: President and co-founder
Company: Le Lab Quantique
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lelabquantique/
Industry: Research
Company Size: 1-10
Location: Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 2018
Ends At: 02-2022
Description: I co-founded and chaired Le Lab Quantique, a not for profit think tank in support of the Global Quantum Ecosystem.
Title: Board Member
Company: Qu & Co
Company URL: None
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 07-2021
Ends At: 12-2021
Description: None
Title: Board Member
Company: KETS Quantum Security
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kets-quantum-security-ltd/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 2018
Ends At: 03-2021
Description: Kets is a global leader in Quantum secured communications, focusing on the development of two products with remarkably small form factors: Quantum Random Number Generator and Quantum Key Distribution chips.
Title: Board Member
Company: LightOn
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lighton/
Industry: Computer Software
Company Size: 11-50
Location: Paris, France
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 2018
Ends At: 2020
Description: LightOn has developed a new optics-based data processing technology for AI. Leveraging
compressive sensing, LightOn’s hardware and software can make Artificial Intelligence computations both simpler and orders of magnitude more power efficient.
Title: Chief Scientific Officer
Company: Lucibel SA
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lucibel/
Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Company Size: 51-200
Location: Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 2017
Ends At: 2019
Description: Driving Disruptive Edge Intelligence projets.
Title: Head Of Quantum Computing Business Development
Company: QC Ware Corp.
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qcware/
Industry: Computer Software
Company Size: 11-50
Location: Palo Alto
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 2017
Ends At: 2018
Description: Hardware agnostic software stack to run quantum algorithms on emerging machines, circuit models, annealers and simulators. QC Ware's quantum optimized libraries support Machine Learning, Search and Optimization along with industry specific softwares.
Title: Principal, Energy
Company: ExQuanto
Company URL: None
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Palo Alto
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 2015
Ends At: 2017
Description: An advisory and technology firm focused on DER and the Internet of Energy, connecting the US and European energy markets.
Selected engagements:
• Equium. World leader in thermoacoustic devices.
• Sunchain. A Blockchain IoT solution for Peer to Peer exchange of electricity.
• Enertime. Leading global manufacturer of ORCs for waste heat to power and energy efficiency.
• Archon. UAVs / UGVs for O&M services of energy infrastructures.
• Rocky Mountain Institute. A leading US think tank on Energy.
Title: President, Solar
Company: E.ON Climate and Renewables
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/e-on/
Industry: Utilities
Company Size: 10001+
Location: San Francisco, California - Milano, Italy
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 2010
Ends At: 2015
Description: • Managed the solar Business Unit of E.ON, PV and CSP, active in 3 markets : USA (San Francisco, headquarter), France (Paris) and Italy (Milan).
• Developed a portfolio of projects for more than 1200 MW of capacity, including battery storage utility scale and onsite for C&I customers
• Built 16 plants of utility-scale ground mounted PV systems in the US, France and in Italy including innovative early stage technologies of modules and structures
Title: CEO, Renewables
Company: Poweo
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/poweo/
Industry: Oil & Energy
Company Size: 201-500
Location: Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 2007
Ends At: 2010
Description: • Founded the Renewable Energy subsidiary of POWEO, an innovative utility, reaching an installed capacity of 105 MW (wind, C&I rooftops solar, ground mount solar, mini-hydro) in mainland France and overseas territories. 2009 main indicators : 22 M€ energy sales, 117 M€ investment, 5 M€ development budget
• Developed a diversified portfolio of more than 1000 MW of projects (onshore and offshore wind, rooftops and ground mount solar, biomass cogeneration) with focus on France but also developments in Italy (solar) and Morocco (Wind)
• Member of the board of the Syndicat des Energies Renouvelables (SER), leading French lobbying organisation
Title: Director, Area Control Systems
Company: French Ministry of Defence
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/french-ministry-of-armed-forces/
Industry: Defense & Space
Company Size: 10001+
Location: Paris Area, France
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 2006
Ends At: 2007
Description: • Managed a team responsible for 12 major Army armament programs for equipments already in the forces as well a new and disruptive systems in development fully compliant with a transformed and fully digitized Army. Focus on operational readiness, construction and operating costs control, components obsolescence and interoperability.
• Participation in NATO working groups
• Colonel, Armament Corps
Title: Head of Renewable Energy Office
Company: French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry
Company URL: None
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 2002
Ends At: 2006
Description: • Led a new department in the Ministry dedicated to the elaboration of a strategy and of measures aimed at increasing the Renewable Energy share in the French energy mix (electricity, cogeneration and heat)
• Supervised the Renewable Energy activity of the national energy agency, ADEME (100 M€ annual budget) and represented the Minister in the National Plan for R&D on new technologies for energy
• Represented France at the body of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in charge of renewable energy and new energy technologies. Co-chair of the Renewable Energy Technology Deployment Implementing Agreement. Participant to the 2005 Governmental Bonn Conference on Renewable Energy.
Title: Deputy Director of Air-Land Systems Architecture
Company: French Ministry of Defence
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/french-ministry-of-armed-forces/
Industry: Defense & Space
Company Size: 10001+
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 2000
Ends At: 2002
Description: • Contributed to the transformation of a legacy Army into a modern, digitized, force through application of innovative technologies (a.o. lasers, robotics, AI, …) and consequent elaboration of new operational concepts in close cooperation with the French Army HQ
• Launched and managed early stage phases of several multi-billion € programmes, some in collaboration with NATO member countries
• French representative to NATO bodies and working groups
• Major, Armament Corps
Title: Programme Manager, Optronics
Company: French Ministry of Defence
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/french-ministry-of-armed-forces/
Industry: Defense & Space
Company Size: 10001+
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 1998
Ends At: 2000
Description: • Managed research and technology programmes associating industry and public laboratories in the fields of optronics, quantum technologies and advanced materials
• Focus on electronic and optronic warfare, optical power limiting, directed energy weapons.
• Captain, Armament Corps
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Company: Ecole normale supérieure
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/school/ecolenormalesuperieure/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 1996
Ends At: 1998
Description: Member of the non linear optics team of Professor Gilbert Grynberg. My work was on optical Feynman ratchets and on micro-motors made with Rubidium atoms in optical lattices, with a view on modeling transport phenomena within cells. We uncovered also anomalous transport modes (Levy flights).
Education:
School: École Polytechnique
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Field: Quantum physics
Period: 1993 - 1996
School: Executive Education / Stanford Graduate School of Business
Degree: Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
Field:
Period: 2013 - 2013
School: ESCP
Degree: Executive Programme
Field:
Period: 2001 - 2002
School: Ecole normale supérieure
Degree: Master's Degree
Field: Quantum Physics
Period: 1992 - 1993
School: École Polytechnique
Degree: Master's Degree
Field: Engineering
Period: 1989 - 1992
Headline:
Managing Partner at Quantonation | Investing in Quantum Startups
Company Industry:
Venture Capital & Private Equity
Connections:
6430
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian
Skills:
Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Energy, Photovoltaics, Alternative Energy, Strategy, Business Strategy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Policy, New Business Development, Project Management, Power Generation, Management, Business Development, Biomass, Cleantech, Wind, Energy Management, Engineering, Strategic Planning, Solar PV, Sustainable Energy, Public Policy, Negotiation, Leadership, Energy Storage, Contract Negotiation, Business Planning, Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, Change Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Program Management, Start-ups, Quantum Computing, Quantum Sensing, Quantum Technologies, Startups
Experience:
Title: Managing Partner
Company: Quantonation
Location: Paris, France and Boston, United States
Start: 2018
End: Present
Title: Board Member
Company: memQ
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Start: Mar 2026
End: Present
Title: Curator
Company: The Metamorphoses of Civilization Collection
Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
Start: Oct 2025
End: Present
Title: Board Member
Company: PINC Technologies
Location: Pasadena, California, United States
Start: Sep 2025
End: Present
Title: Board Member
Company: Pioniq Technologies
Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Start: Feb 2024
End: Present
Title: Board Member
Company: Qubit Pharmaceuticals
Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Start: Jun 2020
End: Present
Title: Board Member
Company: Nord Quantique
Location: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Start: 2020
End: Present
Title: Board Member, Co-Founder
Company: PASQAL
Location: Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Start: Apr 2019
End: Present
Title: Angel Investor
Company: Futurail
Location:
Start: Oct 2023
End: Present
Title: Angel Investor
Company: incidences
Location: Montpellier, Occitanie, France
Start: Sep 2023
End: Present
Title: Angel Investor
Company: Metis
Location:
Start: Dec 2022
End: Present
Title: Board Member
Company: Welinq
Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Start: Jan 2023
End: Mar 2026
Title: Treasurer Board Of Directors
Company: Unitary Fund
Location:
Start: Oct 2021
End: Dec 2025
Title: Board Member
Company: QphoX
Location: Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Start: May 2021
End: Jun 2025
Title: Member of the Board, PINQ2, Platform for Digital and Quantum Innovation
Company: PINQ² - Plateforme d'innovation numérique et quantique
Location: Quebec, Canada
Start: Feb 2023
End: Jun 2024
Title: Associate
Company: Creative Destruction Lab
Location: Toronto, Canada Area
Start: 2018
End: Jun 2024
Title: Board Member
Company: HQS Quantum Simulations
Location:
Start: Jan 2022
End: Aug 2023
Title: Mentor
Company: Duality Accelerator
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Start: Sep 2021
End: Jun 2023
Title: Treasurer
Company: QuantX
Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Start: May 2020
End: Jun 2023
Title: Member of the Governing Board
Company: European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC)
Location:
Start: Apr 2021
End: May 2023
Title: President and co-founder
Company: Le Lab Quantique
Location: Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Start: 2018
End: Feb 2022
Title: Board Member
Company: Qu & Co
Location: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Start: Jul 2021
End: Dec 2021
Title: Board Member
Company: KETS Quantum Security
Location: Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
Start: 2018
End: Mar 2021
Title: Board Member
Company: LightOn
Location: Paris, France
Start: 2018
End: 2020
Title: Chief Scientific Officer
Company: Lucibel SA
Location: Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Start: 2017
End: 2019
Title: Head Of Quantum Computing Business Development
Company: QC Ware Corp.
Location: Palo Alto
Start: 2017
End: 2018
Title: Principal, Energy
Company: ExQuanto
Location: Palo Alto
Start: 2015
End: 2017
Title: President, Solar
Company: E.ON Climate and Renewables
Location: San Francisco, California - Milano, Italy
Start: 2010
End: 2015
Title: CEO, Renewables
Company: Poweo
Location: Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Start: 2007
End: 2010
Title: Director, Area Control Systems
Company: French Ministry of Defence
Location: Paris Area, France
Start: 2006
End: 2007
Title: Head of Renewable Energy Office
Company: French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry
Location: Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Start: 2002
End: 2006
Title: Deputy Director of Air-Land Systems Architecture
Company: French Ministry of Defence
Location: Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Start: 2000
End: 2002
Title: Programme Manager, Optronics
Company: French Ministry of Defence
Location: Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Start: 1998
End: 2000
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Company: Ecole normale supérieure
Location: Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Start: 1996
End: 1998
Publications:
Open hardware solutions in quantum technology (APL Quantum · Mar 1, 2024)
Investing in the Quantum Future: State of Play and Way Forward for Quantum Venture Capital (arxiv · Nov 28, 2023)
Quantum computing with neutral atoms (Quantum Journal · Sep 21, 2020)
LiFi: elightening communications (Lucibel Whitepaper · Feb 1, 2018)
Direct Utility Scale PPAs for Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Energy Buyers, an Alternative Path for Renewable Energy Growth. The US Experience, and the Potential for Asian Markets. (Renewable Energy World Asia · Sep 1, 2016)
Direct Utility Scale PPAs for Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Energy Buyers, an Alternative Path for Renewable Energy Growth. Market Structure, Business Case, and the US Experience. (Powergen Africa · Jul 1, 2016)
Storage, the key to renewable energy deployment and unlocking access to energy (DERBI International Renewable Energy Conference · Jun 1, 2016)
Utility Scale PPAs for Large Volume Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Wholesale Energy Buyers as Part of a Strategic Supply Portfolio – Experiences of a Market Maker, Business Case, and Trends (Renewable Energy World · Dec 1, 2015)