secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Rigetti Computing, Inc. (RGTI)
CIK:        0001838359
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-08-19T23:16:15+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-26-098877
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

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

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1838359/000110465926098877/0001104659-26-098877-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1838359/000110465926098877/tm2623611d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-098877

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