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Quantinuum’s Quantum Leap GitLab’s Schulman Joins as CLO

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July 23, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

Quantinuum appointed Robin Schulman as Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary on July 13, 2026, immediately following the company’s transition to a publicly listed entity on NASDAQ: QNT. The move emphasizes legal stability as Quantinuum scales its quantum computing business. Schulman brings more than two decades of experience guiding high-growth tech companies through complex phases of expansion; she previously served as Chief Legal Officer and Head of Corporate Affairs at GitLab. “Quantinuum sits at a fascinating intersection of science and commercial impact, and I am excited to join the team at this important moment in the company’s journey,” said Schulman. This appointment follows the May 26, 2026, start date for Rory O’Byrne as Chief People Officer, indicating a phased leadership expansion.

Quantinuum Leadership Appointments: Robin Schulman as CLO & Company Secretary

This strategic move arrives as Quantinuum operates within public markets, requiring heightened legal oversight and corporate governance. Schulman’s arrival is not simply a personnel change; it represents a fortification of the company’s legal foundations during a period of anticipated expansion and increased scrutiny. The timing underscores a proactive approach to risk management and compliance as Quantinuum scales its quantum computing operations.

Schulman brings over twenty years of experience guiding technology companies through phases of rapid growth, strategic shifts, and the demands of public company status. Her resume demonstrates a consistent pattern of translating strategy into results, a skill set honed during tenures at companies like GitLab, Couchbase, and New Relic. Prior to these roles, Schulman held senior leadership positions at Adobe Inc., solidifying her expertise in navigating the legal challenges of large-scale technology organizations. This experience is valuable as Quantinuum seeks to commercialize quantum computing, a field still defining its regulatory and intellectual property landscape.

This suggests Quantinuum prioritized establishing a robust internal organizational framework before fully integrating the CLO role, indicating a focus on building a scalable and adaptable workforce. O’Byrne’s background encompasses over 25 years of global human resources leadership across diverse sectors, including technology, energy, and industrial manufacturing. His experience at Advanced Energy, Jonah Energy, and MRC Global demonstrates a proven ability to lead organizations through integration, transformation, and operational expansion. “I’m thrilled to be joining Quantinuum at such a pivotal moment for the company and for quantum computing more broadly,” said Rory O’Byrne, Chief People Officer of Quantinuum. “Having spent my career helping organizations scale through periods of rapid growth, I’m excited to build the people, culture, and infrastructure that will support Quantinuum’s next chapter as a public company.”

Quantinuum sits at a fascinating intersection of groundbreaking science and real-world commercial impact, and I could not be more excited to join the team at this important moment in the company’s journey.

Robin Schulman, Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary of Quantinuum
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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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