Board of Directors | Rigetti & Co, LLC

Thomas J. Iannotti

Chairman of the Board

Mr. Iannotti has been Chairman of the Board since October 2023. Mr. Iannotti served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Services, for Hewlett-Packard Company, a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally, from 2009 until his retirement in 2011. Prior to that role, Mr. Iannotti held various executive positions at Hewlett-Packard, including Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Enterprise Business Group, Americas. Mr. Iannotti also worked at Digital Equipment Corporation, a vendor of computer systems and software, and at Compaq Computer Corporation, a supplier of personal computing systems, following its acquisition of Digital Equipment Corporation.

Mr. Iannotti previously served as a member of the board of directors of Atento S.A.

Mr. Iannotti joined the Applied Materials board of directors in 2005.

Michael Clifton

Director

Mr. Clifton has served as a member of Rigetti’s board of directors since March 2022. In addition, Mr. Clifton currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of Supernova as well as Partner at Falfurrias Capital Partners. Prior to that, he was a senior investment professional at The Carlyle Group from 2010 to 2020 as a member of its flagship U.S. Buyout team where he helped lead Carlyle’s investing activities in the technology and business services sectors. During his tenure, he worked on transactions involving companies in multiple sectors, including enterprise software, FinTech, and IT services. He has served on four private boards and has been a board observer of a public company. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Clifton worked at two mid-market private equity firms, as well as in the M&A group of Bank of America Securities. He earned a B.A., cum laude, in classics from Davidson College, and an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.

Alissa M. Fitzgerald

Director

Dr. Fitzgerald has served as a member of Rigetti’s board of directors since April 2018. She has also served as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Member of A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates, LLC, a consulting services firm for micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) product development and technology since 2003. She had previously worked in engineering or management positions at several technology companies. She currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Transducer Research Foundation since 2016 and served as a board director for the MEMS Industry Group (MIG) from 2008-2014. Dr. Fitzgerald received a Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University and an M.S. and B.S. in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Ray O. Johnson

Director

Dr. Ray O. Johnson is an accomplished international business executive with extensive experience spanning academia, industry, government, military, and venture capital. He is recognized for his strategic vision and ability to manage large-scale technology programs that drive innovation and deliver value. His interdisciplinary expertise and leadership in high-stakes environments have made him a trusted advisor and leader in the technology and aerospace sectors. Dr. Johnson has served as a member of Rigetti’s board of directors since August 2019. He is currently an Operating Partner with Bessemer Venture Partners, which he joined in 2015. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Lockheed Martin Corporation, where he directed a workforce of 72,000 people across more than 4,000 programs, leading engineering, technology, production operations, global supply chain, program management, and logistics and sustainment. Additionally, Dr. Johnson had a 21-year career in the US Air Force. Dr. Johnson received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Oklahoma State University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology, where he received the Distinguished Alumni award. Dr. Johnson is a Full Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics, a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Phi Kappa Phi, and a Fellow of SPIE, AIAA, and IEEE.

Dr. Subodh Kulkarni

Director

Dr. Kulkarni has served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Rigetti since December 2022. Dr. Kulkarni is a seasoned public company CEO with thirty-plus years of experience in the semiconductor industry and a track record of success in scaling and commercializing cutting-edge technologies. Prior to joining Rigetti, Dr. Kulkarni was President, CEO, and member of the Board of CyberOptics Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of high precision sensors and inspection systems for the semiconductor and electronics industry. He held these roles from 2014 until CyberOptics was acquired by Nordson Corporation in November 2022. Prior to CyberOptics, Dr. Kulkarni was CEO of Prism Computational Sciences, a developer of software tools for scientific and commercial applications in the semiconductor industry. Earlier in his career, he held additional leadership positions, including Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of OEM/Emerging business, global commercial business, R&D and manufacturing at Imation, a global scalable storage and data security company. Dr. Kulkarni began his career in research and management positions with 3M Corporation and IBM. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and later obtained a M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from MIT. Dr. Kulkarni currently serves on the Board of KeyTronic Corporation, a publicly traded electronics manufacturing services company, as well as Chairman of the Board for Prism Computational Sciences.

Cathy McCarthy

Director

Ms. McCarthy has served as a member of Rigetti’s board of directors since July 2021 and was Chairperson of the Board from July 2022 until October 2023. Ms. McCarthy is currently President and CEO of Cross Tack Consulting, a strategy consulting firm. Ms. McCarthy has extensive executive level experience at both public and private companies, including SM&A, a publicly traded consulting firm specializing in business capture and program support services for clients in aerospace, defense, homeland security, and information services. Ms. McCarthy served on the board of directors, compensation committee, and audit committee of Solta Medical, Inc., from 2009 until 2013, prior to its merger with Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. She currently serves as a board member and audit committee chair of the Middleby Corporation, a leader and publicly traded company in the foodservice equipment industry.

H. Gail Sandford

Director

Ms. Sandford has served as a member of Rigetti’s board of directors since March 2022. Currently Ms. Sandford holds the position as Principal Director, Business Transformation Office at The Aerospace Corporation. Prior to joining The Aerospace Corporation, Ms. Sandford served as Chief Operations Officer of Recros Medica, an aesthetic medical device startup from 2017 to 2022, and as Chief Operations Officer of PFMG Solar, a leading solar developer in the municipal and school market from 2011 to 2017. Previously, Ms. Sandford served as Vice President at SM&A, a publicly traded consulting firm specializing in business capture and program support services for clients in aerospace, defense, homeland security, and information services, and as Director of Proprietary Programs at Boeing, where she led a program to deliver a novel classified space system. Ms. Sandford holds a B.S. in physics from North Georgia College, an M.S. in engineering from The George Washington University, and an MBA from University of Southern California.

The Board Diversity Matrix for Rigetti Computing, Inc.

As of March 6, 2023
Total Number of Directors	7
	Female	Male	Non-Binary	Did Not Disclose Gender
Part I: Gender Identity
Directors	3	4	—	—
Part II: Demographic Background
African American or Black	—	—	—	—
Alaskan Native or Native American	1	—	—	—
Asian	—	1	—	—
Hispanic or Latinx	—	—	—	—
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	—	—	—	—
White	2	3	—	—
Two or More Races or Ethnicities	—	—	—	—
LGBTQ+	1
Did Not Disclose Demographic Background	—