Florent Verthuy

General Manager

Florent Verthuy is General Manager of Pasqal Arabia, the Saudi arm of the French neutral-atom quantum computing company Pasqal, a role confirmed on Pasqal's own page for this event. He works at the front of the company's international expansion and strategic growth, with a listed work location of Riyadh while based near Pasqal's French headquarters at Massy. He studied at INSEEC between 2008 and 2010 and speaks French, English, Spanish and Chinese. Before Pasqal he spent several years working in information technology in Taiwan, including at QNAP where he served as commercial development manager for the French market and acted as the company's spokesperson to the French press. His work sits within Pasqal's Saudi expansion, which includes the first quantum computer deployed in the Kingdom at Saudi Aramco's data centre in Dhahran and the commercial joint venture with Eleven Ventures announced in August 2026 that established Pasqal Arabia.