PsiQuantum Appoints Niklas Zennström to Board of Directors

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 11, 2026--

PsiQuantum announced today that Niklas Zennström, Founder and CEO of Atomico, has joined the PsiQuantum Board of Directors. Zennström brings decades of experience building, scaling, and investing in category-defining technology companies. He co-founded Skype and served as its CEO before founding Atomico in 2006. Across his career as a founder, investor, and board member, Zennström has played a major role in the growth of Europe’s technology ecosystem.

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“PsiQuantum is taking on one of the most ambitious and important technology challenges of our time,” said Niklas Zennström. “Atomico has partnered with the company for years and watched this team build technologies beyond the state-of-the-art. It is thrilling to see them now execute and scale. I’m excited to join the board and work even more closely with the team as PsiQuantum moves toward building and deploying useful quantum computers.”

Zennström’s appointment reflects Atomico’s long-standing relationship with PsiQuantum. He succeeds Siraj Khaliq, who joined the PsiQuantum Board of Directors in 2019 when Atomico first partnered with the company.

Zennström’s appointment comes as PsiQuantum continues to strengthen its leadership team and Board of Directors. In July, the company appointed Victor Peng to the role of Chief Executive Officer after naming him as Interim CEO in February, in addition to appointing Rob Soderbery as Executive Vice President and Sriram Sitaraman as Chief Information Officer. In April, the company also announced that Intel Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan has joined the PsiQuantum Board of Directors.

“Niklas has a proven track record of turning an ambitious technology vision into a successful business at scale,” said Victor Peng, Chief Executive Officer of PsiQuantum. “Atomico has been a committed partner to PsiQuantum for years, and Niklas brings a rare combination of founder experience, global perspective, and conviction in deep technology. I’m thrilled to have him joining the board as we enter our next phase.”

“Niklas' throughline is a belief that private capital and entrepreneurial disruption, if pointed at the right problems, can serve societal good," said Prof. Jeremy O’Brien, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of PsiQuantum. “PsiQuantum has always been singularly focused on the positive impact and value that utility-scale quantum computing will unlock. We are delighted to have Niklas bring his deep experience to our board.”

PsiQuantum is a full-stack quantum computing company that leverages existing semiconductor manufacturing to rapidly scale its silicon photonics platform. Since its founding, the company has focused on achieving fault tolerance at scale—now widely recognized as the essential capability for quantum computers to solve commercially valuable problems in areas such as chemistry, materials science, and energy. This approach is underpinned by a modular architecture, allowing PsiQuantum to scale system performance by upgrading components while also scaling deployment.

The company is currently advancing major quantum computing projects in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, including the development of utility-scale quantum computing facilities in Chicago and Brisbane. These efforts reflect PsiQuantum’s strategy to pair breakthrough technology with large-scale infrastructure, in partnership with governments and industry, to deliver the first commercially useful quantum computers.

About PsiQuantum

PsiQuantum was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The company’s mission is to build and deploy the world’s first useful quantum computers. PsiQuantum’s photonic approach enables it to leverage high-volume semiconductor manufacturing, existing cryogenic infrastructure, and architectural flexibility to rapidly scale its systems. Learn more at www.psiquantum.com.

Zennström brings decades of experience building, scaling, and investing in category-defining technology companies. (Image Credit: PsiQuantum)

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — At least 2,000 people have died among the confirmed cases in Congo’s Ebola outbreak that is the fastest growing on record, according to the latest government data, as health authorities struggle to get help quickly to remote localities due to rebel conflict, bad roads and work stoppages over payment issues.

Data published overnight into Tuesday showed the outbreak has recorded a total of 4,381 confirmed cases, including 2,011 deaths. A total of 704 patients are in admission and isolation.

The grim toll comes nearly three months since the outbreak was declared on May 15. While it took about nine weeks for the outbreak to record 1,000 deaths, it’s taken just around three weeks to record the additional 1,000 deaths, showing how fast the health crisis is moving beyond the control of responders.

It's already the second-largest outbreak in history, only behind the 2014-2016 West Africa outbreak that recorded more than 28,000 cases including over 11,000 deaths.

Aid workers say the outbreak continues to outpace response that’s been expanding across the five provinces affected. Many health workers have gone on strike to protest lack of payment for their work since the outbreak was declared. And most new cases are recorded outside of contacts being monitored.

The Ebola outbreak is unlike most previous ones because the rare Bundibugyo virus responsible for it has no approved vaccines or treatments. Clinical trials for those have begun in Ituri, the epicenter of the outbreak.

The World Health Organization said on Monday that the outbreak likely started in February, long before authorities detected it in one of Congo’s most remote and vulnerable areas. WHO said some cases early on were wrongly attributed to malaria and typhoid, and that early testing was conducted for the more common type of Ebola.

The WHO regional director for Africa, Dr. Mohamed Yakub Janabi, told a news conference that officials are “chasing the virus, the virus is ahead of us.”

The first Ebola virus to be identified was in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now Congo. The current outbreak is the 17th — and largest — the Central African nation has faced.

A health worker in protective gear walks at an Ebola treatment centre in Bunia, Congo, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)

A health worker in protective gear looks on at an Ebola treatment centre in Bunia, Congo, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)

A health worker in protective gear prepares to mop the floor at an ebola treatment centre in Bunia, Congo, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)

Health workers in protective gear wave inside an Ebola treatment centre in Bunia, Congo, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)