BTQ Technologies Appoints Dr Ro Cammarota to Advance Post-Quantum Semiconductor Strategy
Former Intel and Qualcomm leader joins to accelerate development and commercialisation of QCIM hardware platform.
BTQ Technologies Corp. ("BTQ" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: BTQ) (CBOE CA: BTQ), a global quantum technology company focused on securing mission-critical networks, is pleased to announce that Dr Ro Cammarota is joining the Company's U.S. team to support the development, commercialisation, and strategic partnership efforts for BTQ's post-quantum semiconductor product, QCIM.
Dr Cammarota brings more than 20 years of experience spanning cryptography, privacy, semiconductor design, and advanced hardware architectures, including more than a decade in leadership roles at the forefront of cryptographic hardware innovation. With more than 4,000 academic citations, Dr Cammarota will help strengthen BTQ's core intellectual property, advance QCIM's commercialisation roadmap, support security and cryptographic certification efforts, and expand engagement with key industry stakeholders globally.
Prior to joining BTQ, Dr Cammarota served as Senior Principal Engineer at Intel Labs, where he was Principal Investigator for the DARPA DPRIVE program focused on acceleration architectures for fully homomorphic encryption, Co-Principal Investigator for the Intel Private AI Collaborative Research Institute, and Co-Principal Investigator for the Intel Crypto Frontiers Research Institute. In these roles, he contributed to numerous patented inventions, fostered public-private collaboration, and helped identify commercial opportunities for emerging cryptographic technologies.
Prior to Intel, Dr Cammarota was a Senior Staff R&D Hardware Engineer at Qualcomm, where he led the development of hardware acceleration architectures for AI processing and hardware security architectures for both commercial and government applications. He also worked closely with government, academic, and industry organisations, including the RISC-V Security Standing Committee, the Wi-Fi Alliance, and the Semiconductor Research Corporation. With extensive experience designing high-performance, high-security cryptographic cores, Dr Cammarota also served on the steering committee for the U.S. Department of Defence's Trusted and Assured Microelectronics program.
"Ro is one of the leading minds in cryptographic hardware and advanced semiconductor security," said Olivier Roussy Newton, Chief Executive Officer of BTQ Technologies. "His technical depth, industry relationships, and experience advancing complex hardware programs from research to commercialization will be highly valuable as we continue to scale QCIM and strengthen BTQ's position across the post-quantum security landscape. We are excited to welcome him to the team as we advance the performance, security, and global reach of our hardware platform."
"BTQ is uniquely positioned at the intersection of post-quantum security and advanced semiconductor design, addressing what we believe will become a foundational requirement for next-generation systems and defining the future of secure computing. QCIM represents a differentiated, high-performance approach to accelerating cryptographic workloads, and I look forward to helping advance its development and drive broad commercial adoption. Drawing on my experience leading large-scale cryptographic hardware programs and global standardization efforts, I'm excited to help accelerate QCIM from innovation to real-world deployment."
Dr. Cammarota is also an Associate Researcher at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Irvine in 2013, where his research focused on performance optimization in integrated circuits using feature characterization techniques. He also holds an M.S. in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II.
