Q-CTRL, an Australian-based developer of quantum control infrastructure software, has announced Alex Shih, a Silicon Valley tech veteran, as Head of Product. Shih will now oversee the company’s product management teams in delivering the technology’s value and ROI to clients and end users in new, broader markets. Shih will now lead the company’s product management teams in delivering the value of the company’s technology and ROI to clients and end users in new, broader markets.
Alex Shih has dedicated his career to developing products and solutions that make information and opportunities easily accessible. He was a principal of technical products at Slack, a director of product and ecosystem at Planet Labs, managed emerging market products and efforts at Twitter, created developer products and integrations at Airbnb and Google, and co-founded Global Cycle Solutions, a social company (later acquired by Sun King).
Shih has a master’s degree in engineering and management from MIT Sloan and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University. He is notable for bringing proofs-of-concept to market and branching out into new regions and business sectors. A case study is Twitter. He was instrumental in growing the company beyond Silicon Valley into Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and other emerging markets that garnered them millions of new users. He was also involved in building products that helped Planet Labs reach $100M+ TCV.
“Moving from large, traditional Silicon Valley corporations to a fast-scaling quantum software company brings new challenges and exciting opportunities that I look forward to embracing in this new role,” “I am inspired by quantum technology’s potential to revolutionize computing and accelerate resource-intensive applications and use cases across industries. My aim is to leverage my experiences building and scaling products from various domains to deliver real value to our customers, from speed of delivery to performance gains to cost savings, which is simply infeasible with alternative technologies.”
Alex Shih
Hardware error and instability are two major challenges quantum computer manufacturers face preventing the industry from fully realizing the quantum opportunity. To that effect, Q-CTRL is singularly focused on developing hardware-agnostic, error-correcting infrastructure software tools that make quantum computing and sensing beneficial to businesses. Q-CTRL’s focus on product management is to support the company’s scaling aspirations and to ensure that its technology enables clients to realize their goals in the quantum era.
“Alex’s consumer and enterprise expertise will help us deliver Q-CTRL’s powerful capabilities in quantum computing and quantum sensing to the broadest range of end users, regardless of their experience levels,” “His addition to the team highlights the true product focus we have at Q-CTRL, where we know that building technology is not enough – we have to truly delight our users as we help them achieve their ambitions.”
Q-CTRL founder and CEO Professor Michael J. Biercuk.
