Geordie Rose (born January 6, 1972) is a Canadian theoretical physicist and entrepreneur. Since December 2025 he has held the position of Founding Advisor at Ineffable Intelligence.
Geordie founded D-Wave, the world’s first quantum computing company, was the founding CEO of Kindred, the world’s first robotics company to use reinforcement learning in a production environment, and was the founding CEO of Sanctuary, a pioneer in full-stack humanoids. He has sold quantum computers and robots that learn to Google, NASA, Lockheed Martin, The Gap, and several US government agencies. He received a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of British Columbia in 2000. He has helped raise around $1.7B in venture capital for science-based ventures in quantum computing, superintelligence, and robotics. He is an inventor on more than 70 granted US patents and a co-author on a large number of published scientific articles, including two Nature papers, two Science papers, more than a dozen PRLs and PRBs, two NIPS and one ACML paper. His current h-index is 49. He was named the 2011 Canadian Innovator of the Year, was named to Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013, won the 2014 Canadian Technology Leader award, has won two Canadian national wrestling championships and is a member of the McMaster University Hall of Fame, won the 2010 NAGA world championships in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in both gi and no-gi categories, won the BC provincial A beach volleyball championship with Jason Hall in 2003, beat the Guinness Book of World Records world record for the most yogurt eaten in one minute but was subsequently surpassed and never got the actual World Record, was a past holder of British Columbia powerlifting records in deadlift, bench press and total for the 105kg masters division, has completed eight half marathons and two full marathons, and walked 2,400km from Tofino, BC to Reston, Manitoba.
Recognition
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Rose's Law
Coined by Steve Jurvetson, this is the prediction that the number of qubits used in a quantum computation would double every year. This has held now (more or less) for about thirty years.
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McMaster Hall of Fame
In 2009 our 1994 national championship team was inducted into the McMaster Hall of Fame.
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MIT Tech Review
Two of my companies have been featured on MIT Tech Review’s list of smartest companies in the world. D-Wave was #40 in 2014, and Kindred was #29 in 2017.
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Time Magazine
In 2014 Lev Grossman, who coincidentally wrote one of my favorite books (Codex), wrote a cover piece on D-Wave for Time Magazine.
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Foreign Policy Magazine
I was named one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013 for “pioneering the development of quantum computers”.
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Ineffable Intelligence
In 2026 I helped Ineffable raise US$1.1B, the largest seed round in European history across all categories. The company’s mission is first contact with superintelligence.