
Michael Clifton
DirectorMr. Clifton has served as a member of Rigetti’s board of directors since March 2022. Currently, he is a partner at Falfurrias Management Partners and helps lead Falfurrias Growth Partners and serves on its investment committee. He has more than 20 years of private equity and finance experience including helping lead technology and business services investing for The Carlyle Group’s flagship U.S. Buyout Private Equity group as well as co-founding Supernova Partners, a sponsor of multiple blank-check companies, including Supernova II which merged with Rigetti to bring it public. He has significant experience investing in semiconductors, software, business services, and fintech companies. He has served on many public, private, and non-profit boards.
Mr. Clifton earned an AB, cum laude, in Classics from Davidson College, and an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.