Christian Weedbrook is the founder and CEO of Xanadu Quantum Technologies. He is an Australian-born physicist and entrepreneur based in Toronto, Canada. He has a PhD in Physics from the University of Queensland, specializing in Quantum Information Theory. He was a postdoc at the MIT and the University of Toronto. Initially, he attended film school with aspirations of becoming a director before returning to mathematics and science. He also explored several small-scale entrepreneurial projects, including selling heat packs and trading at local flea markets. In 2014, he launched CipherQ, which specialized in quantum security and cryptography. He then created Xanadu in 2016.
