Identifying, Benchmarking, and Placing The Quantum Leaders in your Industry
Identifying, Benchmarking, and Placing The Quantum Leaders in your Industry
Who We Serve
QuTech Hardware & Software
Our most direct client-base derives from corporations developing quantum technology. This includes newer standalone companies, whether publicly traded or private equity/venture capital-backed. Guided by our mission to support the QuTech industry and aid in its rapid progression means, when necessary, we are able to assume a high degree of flexibility in our business arrangements to meet the needs and imperatives of early-stage companies. We also work with larger established conglomerates that have dedicated significant resources to instituting quantum departments or subsidiaries. While these are the most obvious clients for a QuTech Executive Search firm, they are far from our only clients, as we work with companies from many industries for good reason. Click through to learn more…
Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology
New drug design and discovery has been hailed as one of the most promising areas for quantum computing, even in the early days of NISQ (noisy intermediate scale quantum) devices. It is because quantum computers will be able to mimic compounds in the minutest of detail, including at the subatomic scale, that the potential of bringing to market new and greatly improved drugs to counter the most challenging human diseases, such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease is encouraging. Yet applications do not stop there. As biotech increasingly relies on assembling, analyzing, and interpolating ever vaster amounts of data, quantum computers will become crucial in processing results. The impact of such exponential leaps in processing power will likely see the rapid and effective enhancement of areas such as gene sequencing and protein folding. New gene editing technologies such as CRISPR have much to gain. As such, bringing onboard in-house talent to oversee the proper implementation of quantum infrastructure cannot be overstated. Not paying due attention to QuTech in this field could be an oversight of epic proportions given that many large pharma and biotech companies have already begun.
Advanced Materials Design & Manufacturing
Materials science is plagued with the need for computation at scales vastly exceeding our current capabilities, even those of today’s most powerful supercomputers. Much of the time, the starting point for the design of performance materials, polymers, and the like, begin with intuition and end with trial and error. This is an arduous and cumbersome process, and one that often garners qualitative results that differ from predictions. Mechanical tuning attempts are replete with uncontrolled reactions and quantitative inaccuracies/deviations that lead to drastically unexpected physical behaviors of resultant materials. Until theoretical and predictive computations can be performed with accuracy down to the detail of the very electrons in these materials, the problems seem insurmountable. As such, advanced materials companies and industrials engaged in similar activities are turning to quantum computing to overcome these challenges, including for Additive Manufacturing (3D printing). In order to do this with meaningful success, senior management in Quantum is needed to institute intricate systemic infrastructure.
Chemicals & Agriculture
Chemical companies face similar challenges to materials design in that computational chemistry struggles under the weight and scale of computing needed to accurately model the subatomic properties and numerous interactions within various compounds beneath the molecular level. Challenges in agriculture are not dissimilar either. A pivotal example of this is the production of ammonia for use in fertilizer, without which growing crops in sufficient quantities to feed global populations would be a far less simple endeavor. As it stands, despite the fact that ammonia is produced naturally at about room temperature, the synthetic process requires high heat, close to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and as a result, consumes an excessive amount of global energy each year. Quantum computing may finally allow for the modeling of natural ammonia production at low temperatures and could ultimately lead to dramatic reductions in both energy consumption and cost. For Chemicals, Agriculture, and Food companies, look to us to find your Quantum Lead.
Aerospace & Defense
Aviation and Space Systems will benefit greatly in coming years from the most mature quantum technologies in commercialization today. Inertial sensors will measure acceleration with pinpoint accuracy, gravimetry will provide outsized advantages in object detection over radar, and radar systems themselves will be considerably enhanced. Aircraft will no longer depend on satellite signals for navigation, and “seeing” around corners, through obscuring weather, and even underground, will become possible. Not to mention the innovations that will result from improved understanding of fluid dynamics through quantum simulation. The nature of advanced technology will become even more central to aerial and naval defense than it is presently, with QuTech front and center. On the ground, cyber defenses will come sharply into focus as nations turn to quantum-proof tools to secure critical infrastructure, and utilize quantum computers to attempt previously unimagined feats of gaining control in various domains. For Aerospace & Defense companies serving the private sector as well as governments, it is a question of survival. Falling behind in Quantum is not an option, and onboarding the top minds in QuTech is, consequently, essential.
Finance & Insurance
The Banking, Investment Management, and Insurance sectors are a few places where quantum tech is already in practice even today. Still in its infancy, QuTech has nonetheless already begun to prove its extensive effectiveness in use cases such as risk management, portfolio optimization, data-enhanced trading strategies, reduction or elimination of fraudulent crimes, and needless to say, cybersecurity, post quantum cryptography, and artificial intelligence/machine learning. With large banks leading the charge, it is a difficult prospect for competitors to sit this one out. Regional banks, mid-sized investment management shops, and additional insurance firms will soon need to join the party, or risk obsolescence. For those with the foresight and presence of mind to get in the game early, we stand at the ready to identify, assess, and place optimal talent to oversee the implementation and use of already available quantum tools.
Technology Consulting & Business Advisory
As global industries prepare for the vast shift from digital to quantum systems in many instances, enormous demand for assistance in assessing benefits, planning roadmaps, and implementing change is already driving the need for advisory services in quantum technology. This is set to increase greatly as time goes by. As a result, consulting firms will themselves need exceptionally quantum-capable talent to lead senior executives of corporate clients down the right path, and guide their journey towards quantum advantage. In the long-term, as we approach the stage of fault-tolerant quantum computing, it’s possible that companies will have already begun to onboard their own senior talent for this purpose, and advisory demand may therefore wane just a little in the distant future. However, we are many years away from such an eventuality, and in the era of NISQ (noisy intermediate scale quantum), consulting firms are likely to play a significant and outsized role to aid in the transition towards quantum infrastructure. Competition to gain market share in this arena will turn largely on the caliber of senior consultants in quantum departments, and finding the optimal talent to lead consulting teams is therefore crucial for advisory firms large and small. To accomplish this, a quantum-specialist executive search firm is likewise critical.
Logistic & Freight
The infamous “travelling salesman” problem, an NP-hard compute problem in combinatorics, illustrates just how complicated it can be to optimize routes for ground trucking, maritime shipping, and air cargo transportation for commercial deliveries, not to mention the myriad logistical challenges involving consumer transport and delivery of consumer goods (industries that are growing rapidly, even before we consider the introduction of delivery by aerial drones an unmanned vehicles). Today’s computational power is insufficient to surmount many such hurdles. Implementing quantum computing to tackle these challenges, even with today’s early NISQ devices, can already begin to provide untold benefits such as large savings on fuel costs, reduction in transit times, and reduced manhours resulting in far lower labor costs. Efficiency increases are just the start of how related industries may benefit, and quantum talent is where the journey begins.
Telecoms & Network Equipment Manufacturers
The telecommunications industry across the planet is not waiting. The world’s largest have already begun developing quantum networks, mechanisms for quantum-safe communications, and planning for our quantum future. Whether by leveraging current fiber infrastructure, utilizing new breakthroughs in squeezed light technology, capitalizing on ever more sensitive single-photon detectors, or via integration of space systems, the movement towards quantum networks has already begun. As progress continues, these companies, their competitors, and their strategic partners will need foremost experts in quantum communications and quantum-safe cybersecurity to ensure successful rollouts of massive infrastructure programs across national grids, as well as for numerous private clients. Missteps in programs of such magnitude could be catastrophic if not overseen by exceptionally capable senior management in quantum. Working with an expert search firm is the first step to ensuring stable and seamless success in the planning, design, setup, and operationalization of quantum networks.
Automotive, Aviation & Battery Technology
Major advancements in autonomous vehicles, manned and autonomous Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft, and solid-state lithium-ion batteries that could vastly extend the range and reduce charge times, are all in view on the horizon. We glimpse their arrival, and yet the obstacles confronting each and every one of these remain towering. Quantum technologies applied to these areas will unleash on these obstacles a level of previously unseen technological prowess that may finally lead to much-awaited breakthroughs in these areas. Moreover, small specs of the quantum market have surfaced in the development of quantum batteries themselves. We stand at the ready to bring to bear senior-level quantum talent to make these breakthroughs a reality for companies bravely broaching such challenges.
Energy & Sustainable Infrastructure
Oil & Gas is one industry that is no stranger to complex analysis for problem solving purposes in both technical and business challenges. However, the benefits of quantum for companies operating in this space will go far beyond this capability alone. Until today, exploration and discovery of subterranean carbon energy reserves remains a labor intensive, cumbersome, and costly process. Quantum sensing may play a big role in making this a thing of the past. As we think to our future though, we turn our eye to clean energy that will help combat climate change, be that solar, wind, nuclear, or other such clean energy sources. In each, the technical goals that quantum technology is apt to enable may finally see us enter a stage of sustainability to rival the era of fossil fuels, and launch us towards the clean-energy future we have long awaited. Whether the challenge be energy conversion, storage, or transportation, the right quantum talent at the senior level offers the best chance of success. In this area as much as any, it is necessary to begin building quantum teams with immediacy.
Healthcare & Precision Medicine
Legacy quantum technology of a sort is already in use at hospitals worldwide today for neural imaging and the like. Yet the immense advancements in precision and sensitivity of quantum medical appliances and eventually even medical devices will render even these types of sophisticated equipment all but obsolete in years to come. The development of advanced quantum technologies for medical use and for application in healthcare are proliferating and deepening in their capabilities. Envisioning the discovery of to date unrecognized diseases, breakthroughs in virology, as well as cancer detection and treatment, all may take form via the application of quantum apparatus to the world of curative care. Health systems have already begun the search for their quantum leaders and subject matter experts. When the search for quantum talent begins for your organization in earnest, we stand at the ready, and we know where and what to look for.
Industrial & Civil Engineering
In the past, technical challenges confronting the engineering sector have been met with solid competence while still maintaining costly, cumbersome, laborious, and time-consuming approaches. Techniques and tools used have done the job, but the methods chosen have not always been optimal, as contemporary technologies simply did not allow for an optimized approach. As quantum devices mature, this will fast become ancient history. Quantum sensing in particular, will enable subterranean and suboceanic planning ahead of construction with no need for physical drilling or manual exploration. Microgravimetry, quantum magnetometry, and atom interferometry will do the trick nicely to enable the mapping of designs and specifications with unprecedented levels of precision. Faster. Cheaper. Easier. However, without the right leadership in Quantum to oversee similarly delicate and sensitive instrumentation, this may not play out as intended. Make sure.
Universities, Non-Profits & Government
As quantum technology progresses at a largely unexpected rate, and with a pace previously thought to be improbably fast, the number of organizations that have sprung into existence to foster, fund, incubate, and accelerate participating companies has been quite a wonder to watch. In many cases, non-profit organizations have focused efforts on training the quantum workforce of tomorrow, while in other cases, providing the scaffolding needed to set quantum companies up for success has been central to the mission. In many cases, governmental entities and public agencies have stepped up to the plate as well, to contribute to the swiftly burgeoning quantum ecosystem. In all such cases, Psirch applauds the earnest effort with much admiration, and ourselves commit to supporting this effort with as much flexibility as we can manage in business arrangements with such non-profit and governmental initiatives. Similarly, as Quantum advances, university partnerships play a critical role in joint ventures, central bodies, cross-academic collaborations, and corporate-academic partnerships, all of which make quantum at academia a much more profitable and rewarding endeavor. We also relish contributing, by placing leadership.
And others…
Quantum TAHR
While we serve all of the industries outlined above and many others, we typically have a primary point of contact at the companies and organizations that engage us. Sometimes, this point of contact, with whom we work through the process, is the hiring manager, such as the Chief Technology Officer, the Chief Transformation Officer, the Head of I.T., or with newer companies, the CEO. Most of the time, however, this primary point of contact is the CHRO, the Head of Talent Acquisition, or other HR and/or Talent Acquisition executives. As such, if you are an executive in TA or HR and work in the quantum space or for companies that have quantum operations, we want to hear from you.
Staying on our radar may mean many perks in time to come, including invitations to exclusive events, networking opportunities with your peers in TA/HR, receiving our quarterly newsletter, and perhaps most importantly, being the first to hear about quantum jobs in TA/HR.
Get in touch with us by reaching out to: shai@psirch.com