Marco Paini

Technology Partnerships Director, Europe Rigetti Computing

Marco Paini is the Technology Partnerships Director, Europe at Rigetti. Marco is currently managing the programme to build the first commercial quantum computer in the UK, a collaboration of Rigetti, Oxford Instruments, Phasecraft, the University of Edinburgh and Standard Chartered, sponsored by Innovate UK. Marco previously led quantum computing applications portfolio development of QxBranch, a quantum computing software company acquired by Rigetti in 2019. Prior to QxBranch, Marco spent more than eighteen years with Accenture, where he has held several roles in technology. In the last part of his career with Accenture, Marco oversaw the AI ecosystem and the development of the quantum computing offering for the Accenture UKI Financial Services Technology Advisory practice. Marco studied physics at the University of Pavia, where he collaborated with the Quantum Information Theory Group of the University of Pavia.