Board of Directors

Mr. Iannotti has been Chairman of the Board of Directors 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 has served as Chairman of the Board of Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT), a multi-billion publicly traded company that produces semiconductor fabrication equipment, since 2005, and previously served as Chairman of the Board of Atento S.A.

Mr. Clifton has served as a member of the Board of Directors since March 2022. Mr. Clifton currently serves as a Partner at Falfurrias Management, where he helps lead Falfurrias Growth Partners. He served as a director and Chief Financial Officer of Supernova Partners Acquisition Company III Ltd. until March 2023 and April 2023, respectively, and as a director and Chief Financial Officer of Supernova Partners Acquisition Company II, Ltd. until March 2022. 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 enterprise software, financial technology, semiconductors, and IT services. He has served on nine private and two public Boards of Directors. Over his career, Mr. Clifton has been involved in several leveraged buyouts, growth investments, and carve-outs. Mr. Clifton has substantial public market experience and has helped lead the public offerings of multiple companies. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Clifton worked at two middle market private equity firms, as well as in the M&A group of Bank of America Securities. He earned a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in classics from Davidson College, and an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.

Dr. Fitzgerald, NACD.DC has served as a member of the Board of Directors since March 2022 and previously served as a member of the Legacy Rigetti Board of Directors from April 2018 until the consummation of the Business Combination. She has also served as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Member of A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates, LLC, a product development firm for micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) and silicon-based technologies since 2003. She had previously worked in engineering or management positions at several technology companies, including Orbital Sciences Corporation and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She served as a member of the SEMI MEMS Standards Committee from 2015 to 2025, on the Board of Directors of Transducer Research Foundation from 2016 to 2024 and on the Board of Directors for the MEMS Industry Group (MIG) from 2008 to 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.