Greenest Banks of 2025 Emerge as Global Net-Zero Alliances Collapse
A year of mass exits from voluntary climate coalitions redrew the map of climate leadership in banking, leaving a narrow field of European lenders and values-based institutions. The architecture governing climate commitments in global banking was assembled in a single year and dismantled in another. Between December 2024 and October 2025, every major Wall Street […]
Ken Howery, The Silicon Valley Statesman – Q2B Leaders Spotlight
Kenneth A. Howery, U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark Kenneth A. Howery has spent much of his career moving between technology, capital and global influence. He first emerged as a central figure in Silicon Valley as a co-founder of PayPal and the company’s first Chief Financial Officer, helping finance and scale one of the […]
David Awschalom, The Quantum Pioneer – Q2B Leaders Spotlight
David Awschalom, Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago | Director, Chicago Quantum Institute | Founding Director, Chicago Quantum Exchange David Awschalom has spent decades working on a problem that now sits near the center of the global technology race: how to control quantum systems well enough to make them useful. Long before […]
Lene Oddershede, The Science Capitalist – Q2B Leaders Spotlight
Lene Oddershede, Chief Scientific Officer, Planetary Science and Technology, Novo Nordisk Foundation Lene Oddershede has built a career around a question that increasingly defines global competitiveness: how to turn scientific excellence into lasting technological and societal advantage. A physicist by training, Lene Oddershede spent years in academia before joining the Novo Nordisk Foundation in 2019 […]
Lauri Sainiemi, The Scale Operator – Q2B Leaders Spotlight
Lauri Sainiemi, Corporate Vice President, Quantum Fabrication, Microsoft Lauri Sainiemi operates at one of the hardest points in quantum computing: turning fragile scientific breakthroughs into hardware that can be fabricated reliably and, eventually, at scale. He has spent nearly 15 years at Microsoft. He now leads the company’s quantum fabrication organization and its quantum laboratories […]
Victoria Billing, The Transatlantic Envoy – Q2B Leaders Spotlight
Victoria Billing, British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark Victoria Billing has spent nearly three decades navigating some of the most important relationships in British foreign policy. She joined the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1997 and has since served across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, with postings in Yangon and Jerusalem and […]
Dong Yeol Rhee, The Security Strategist – Q2B Leaders Spotlight
Dong Yeol Rhee, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the Kingdom of Denmark Dong Yeol Rhee has built a diplomatic career around issues increasingly central to national security: cybersecurity, military AI, arms control and international cooperation. Before becoming South Korea’s Ambassador to Denmark in 2025, Rhee served as Ambassador for International Cyber Cooperation and, […]
Elica Kyoseva, The Quantum-AI Integrator – Q2B Leaders Spotlight
Elica Kyoseva, Director, Quantum Algorithm Engineering, NVIDIA Elica Kyoseva works at one of the most consequential intersections in advanced computing: where quantum systems, artificial intelligence and accelerated computing begin to converge. At NVIDIA, she leads teams focused on quantum algorithms and applied research, with an emphasis on using AI supercomputing to overcome bottlenecks in quantum […]
David Sadek, The Sovereign Technologist – Q2B Leaders Spotlight
David Sadek, Vice President, Research, Technology & Innovation, Thales David Sadek has spent much of his career working on technologies designed for environments where reliability and trust are critical. As Vice President for Research, Technology & Innovation at Thales, his remit includes information processing, algorithms, artificial intelligence and quantum computing. He joined the group in […]
Jonathan King, The Hardware Visionary – Q2B Leaders Spotlight
Jonathan King, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Atom Computing Jonathan King has built his career around one of the central challenges in quantum computing: how to turn the unusual behavior of individual atoms into a controllable, scalable computing platform. As Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Atom Computing, Jonathan King has helped shape the company’s neutral-atom approach […]
