Yuping Huang has served as the Company s Chief Executive Officer since December 12, 2025, Interim Chief Executive Officer and President since May 13, 2025, Chairman of the Board since December 10, 2024, as Chief Quantum Officer from June 14, 2022 through December 12, 2025, and as a Director since June 14, 2022. Dr. Huang has over 20 years of experience in commercial and academic settings, with pioneering research in a wide spectrum of quantum physics, optics, and technology. Prior to joining the Company, Dr. Yuping founded QPhoton, Inc., where he served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer from 2020 until its acquisition by the Company in 2022. QPhoton was a development stage company commercializing quantum photonic technology and devices to provide innovative and practical quantum solutions for critical challenges facing big data, cyber, remote sensing, and healthcare industries. Dr. Huang worked as a postdoctoral fellow, a research faculty member, and principal investigator at Northwestern University from 2009-2014. Dr. Huang has been a Professor of Physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology, a private research technological university in Hoboken, New Jersey, since 2014 (from 2014 to 2019 as assistant professor, from 2019-2023 as associate professor and as a full professor since 2023). Dr. Huang is the Viola W. and Elbert C. Brinning Endowed Professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He received a Bachelor of Science in modern physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2004 and a PhD in quantum AMO physics in 2009 from Michigan State University. Dr. Huang s expertise in quantum physics and optics and leadership experience in quantum research qualifies him to serve as a member of the Board.