Quantum Brilliance appoints Brian Wong as independent board chair
The news: Diamond quantum technology company Quantum Brilliance has appointed technology industry executive Brian Wong as the company’s new independent board chair.
The context: With over 40 years in the semiconductor sector, Wong has served as an independent board director at eight technology companies and multiple non-profits. He has also raised over $200 million in equity funding and has formed strategic partnerships and investments with more than two dozen international companies in the semiconductor, computing, sensors, automotive and battery sectors.
Wong is a managing director at investment banking firm Pantek Partners where he specialises in advising clients on private placements and M&A in hard tech and deep tech sectors.
In December 2024, Quantum Brilliance secured a $13 million investment from Australia's National Reconstruction Fund (NRF), the fund’s second investment.
What they said: "I’m honoured to join the board of Quantum Brilliance as the Chair," said Wong. "Quantum Brilliance’s diamond-based quantum hardware removes one of the biggest deployment barriers in the field—the need for large, expensive cryo-coolers—and positions the company to deliver small, cost-efficient, room temperature quantum sensors and fault-tolerant computing devices into our growing Quantum Diamond ecosystem.”
The source: Quantum Brilliance