---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001907982-24-000085"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "QBTS"
cik: "0001907982"
company_name: "D-Wave Quantum Inc."
filed_at: "2024-07-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T19:14:10.542275+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Philip Adam Smalley III resigns from D-Wave Quantum board

## Summary
- Effective July 18, 2024, Philip Adam Smalley III resigned as director and from Audit and Nominating/Governance committees.
- Resignation not due to any disagreement with the company regarding operations, policies, or practices.
- No replacement director has been announced by the company.
- Smalley had served on the Board of Directors since an unspecified prior date.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001907982-24-000085
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: QBTS
- cik: 0001907982
- company_name: D-Wave Quantum Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-07-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1907982/000190798224000085/0001907982-24-000085-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1907982/000190798224000085/qbts-20240718.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001907982-24-000085
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001907982-24-000085.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001907982-24-000085.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Philip Adam Smalley III resigned as Director at D-Wave Quantum Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On July 18, 2024, Philip Adam Smalley III provided D-Wave Quantum Inc. (the "Company") with a notice of resignation as a director on the Company's Board of Directors, effective as of July 18, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1907982/000190798224000085/0001907982-24-000085-index.htm

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