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100+ Patented Inventor Pecen Joins EigenQ as Vice Chairman

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July 28, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

EigenQ has appointed Mark Pecen, a technical authority holding over 100 patents, as Vice Chairman to accelerate the company’s growth ahead of a proposed merger. Pecen’s experience includes foundational work on GSM, GPRS, and EDGE at the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), as well as key contributions to 3G UMTS and 4G LTE technologies. “I’ve known EigenQ founder Dr. Jesse Van Griensven for more than 20 years, and when he asked whether I could help, there was no hesitation,” said Pecen, outlining his commitment to the company’s expansion within the European quantum community. According to Dr. Van Griensven, Chairman of EigenQ, Pecen has been instrumental in shaping the company’s technology strategy and intellectual property since its earliest stages.

Pecen Appointed Vice Chairman, Leveraging Quantum-Safe Technology Expertise

Mark Pecen’s arrival as Vice Chairman at EigenQ brings more than 100 patents of technical expertise to a company preparing for expansion. He holds over 100 patents, indicating a strong commitment to innovation in the quantum-safe technology sector. This appointment strengthens EigenQ’s leadership as it prepares to merge with Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: SVAQ) and transition toward a public listing, accelerating the deployment of its quantum solutions. Pecen’s involvement extends beyond a recent commitment; he previously served on EigenQ’s Board and as a strategic advisor, demonstrating sustained investment in the company’s direction. Pecen’s career demonstrates a long-standing dedication to secure communications infrastructure, beginning with foundational work on GSM, GPRS, and EDGE at the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), as well as key contributions to 3G UMTS and 4G LTE technologies at Motorola and BlackBerry.

This proactive approach to post-quantum security underscores his foresight and leadership in a field now gaining critical urgency. Beyond technical standards, Pecen also chaired the Canadian task force on GDPR, revealing a skillset encompassing both data privacy regulations and quantum-resistant technologies, a crucial intersection as quantum computing capabilities advance. Alexander Truskovsky has been promoted to Chief Information Security Officer, a newly established role emphasizing the company’s commitment to security at every level. Dr. José Rosas-Bustos, Chief Executive Officer of EigenQ, leads a team of experienced industry veterans dedicated to translating innovation into tangible impact, positioning EigenQ for sustained success in the evolving quantum field.

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Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to the thing quietly running underneath everything, and she brings that long view to quantum computing. For Quantum Zeitgeist she covers the ground where the two fields meet. That means quantum machine learning and the variational algorithms it leans on, and it also means the less glamorous but more interesting story of classical machine learning already doing real work inside quantum machines, decoding error-correcting codes, calibrating noisy hardware and learning the error models that simulators depend on. She writes about the hardware those algorithms have to run on too, and about the post-quantum cryptography scramble that the same hardware has set off. Her stories typically start with the paper, whether that is peer-reviewed work, conference proceedings or an arXiv preprint, with the source linked so you can hold a claim up against the research it came from. She is unimpressed by benchmarks that will not say what they beat, and by demonstrations that only work in the press release.

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