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Ruffner is a veteran quantum... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/former-ibm-quantum-executive-denise-ruffner-joins-haiqu-to-expand-quantum-software-adoption-julruzz1n og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/julRuzz1N.png og:image:alt: Former IBM Quantum Executive Denise Ruffner Joins Haiqu to Expand Quantum Software Adoption og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Former IBM Quantum Executive Denise Ruffner Joins Haiqu to Expand Quantum Software Adoption **[The Quantum Insider](https://daily.dev/sources/thequantuminsider)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Haiqu has appointed Denise Ruffner as Vice President of Business Development and Commercial Operations Worldwide. Ruffner is a veteran quantum commercialization executive with prior leadership roles at IBM Quantum, Cambridge Quantum Computing (now Quantinuum), IonQ, and Atom Computing. Her appointment is aimed at expanding adoption of Haiqu's Agentic Operating System, which combines agentic AI with proprietary middleware to help R&D teams run quantum experiments more efficiently without waiting for fully fault-tolerant hardware. Ruffner also founded Women in Quantum and co-founded DiviQ, organizations focused on inclusion in the quantum industry. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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