Rigetti names David Rivas COO and Andrew Bestwick CTO, new systems delivery org

Rigetti Computing, Inc.

David Rivas, former CTO, appointed to newly created COO role effective Aug 18, 2026; base salary raised to $440,000.
Andrew Bestwick, Ph.D., formerly SVP Quantum Systems, appointed CTO effective Aug 18, 2026.
Company creating dedicated Systems Delivery organization to scale on-premises deployments from 9-qubit Novera to 108-qubit Cepheus systems.
Rivas to oversee manufacturing, commercial, customer engineering, supply chain; Bestwick to lead processor architecture, chip dev, hardware engineering.
Both report to CEO Subodh Kulkarni; move aims to boost execution on roadmap and customer support.

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