Steve Brierley is the Founder and CEO of Riverlane, a company building the world’s first operating system for error-corrected quantum computers. Backed by leading venture capital funds and the University of Cambridge, Riverlane is comprehensively solving error correction, the biggest barrier to the large-scale, reliable, and powerful quantum computers the world needs.

Steve has worked in quantum for 20 years and is an expert advisor to the UK government. Prior to founding Riverlane in 2016, he spent almost a decade at GCHQ and as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, leading major research projects in quantum computing. He holds a PhD in Quantum Information from the University of York.