Rigetti names CTO David Rivas as COO, appoints Andrew Bestwick as CTO

• Rigetti created a chief operating officer role, forming a Systems Delivery organization to scale on-premises quantum system deployments.
• David Rivas was named COO from CTO; he joined in 2019 as SVP Systems and Services, previously held executive roles at Sun, Nokia.
• Andrew Bestwick was appointed CTO from SVP, Quantum Systems; he joined in 2015, led Cepheus-class architecture, previously worked at Bain.
• Processor architecture, chip development, hardware engineering shift under the CTO; Systems Delivery consolidates manufacturing operations, customer-facing engineering.

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