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Cathy McCarthy is President and CEO of Cross Tack, Inc., a management consulting firm. Previously she served as President and CEO of SM&A, a public company which provides business strategy, competition management, and project management consulting services to government contractors. She has served on several public company boards as audit committee chair and member of the compensation committees.

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 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.

David Cowan is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and co-founder of VeriSign, Good Technology, and Defense.net. He is a two-time graduate of Harvard University, earning degrees in computer science and math and an MBA. He serves on several non-profit boards, including Center for Inquiry and the Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

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. We believe Dr. Fitzgerald is qualified to serve as a member of New Rigetti’s board of directors because of her extensive experience as a senior executive and substantial knowledge in semiconductor and electronics technology.

Ray O. Johnson served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Lockheed Martin Corporation, where he led the Advanced Concepts Organization and the Center for Innovation. Ray holds advanced degrees in electrical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.

Chad Rigetti is a quantum computing physicist and the founder and CEO of Rigetti Computing. He worked in the quantum computing group at IBM. Chad has a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Regina and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Yale.

Gail Sandford has served as Chief Operating Officer and in executive management roles in diverse industries, including medical devices, solar development, consulting, and aerospace and defense. Gail received her BS in Physics from North Georgia College, her MS in Engineering from The George Washington University, and her MBA from the University of Southern California.