D-Wave Quantum Inc.

NYSE:QBTS Stock Report

Market Cap: US$647.4m

D-Wave Quantum Management

Management criteria checks 3/4

D-Wave Quantum's CEO is Alan Baratz, appointed in Aug 2022, has a tenure of 2.25 years. total yearly compensation is $1.05M, comprised of 55% salary and 45% bonuses, including company stock and options. directly owns 0.43% of the company’s shares, worth $2.77M. The average tenure of the management team and the board of directors is 2.3 years and 1.8 years respectively.

Key information

Alan Baratz

Chief executive officer

US$1.0m

Total compensation

CEO salary percentage55.0%
CEO tenure2.3yrs
CEO ownership0.4%
Management average tenure2.3yrs
Board average tenure1.8yrs

Recent management updates

Recent updates

The Trump-Musk Effect: Can D-Wave Quantum Sustain Its Meteoric Rise Amid Financial Turmoil?

Nov 19

D-Wave: Buying Before Earnings

Oct 30

D-Wave: Aiming To Leverage Zapata's Industrial Generative AI

Mar 08

Quantum Races: D-Wave's Bold Bet Against Giants

Oct 23

D-Wave Q2: Profitability Issues, But Its Product Is Seeing Traction From AI

Aug 11

D-Wave: Quantum Computing Might Be With Us

Jun 04

D-Wave and Davidson Technologies enter multi-year reseller agreement

Jan 05

D-Wave Quantum GAAP EPS of -$0.11, revenue of $1.7M

Nov 10

D-Wave Quantum: Revolutionary Product That Could Change The World

Oct 11

D-Wave Quantum reports Q2 results

Aug 16

CEO Compensation Analysis

How has Alan Baratz's remuneration changed compared to D-Wave Quantum's earnings?
DateTotal CompensationSalaryCompany Earnings
Sep 30 2024n/an/a

-US$74m

Jun 30 2024n/an/a

-US$67m

Mar 31 2024n/an/a

-US$76m

Dec 31 2023US$1mUS$575k

-US$83m

Sep 30 2023n/an/a

-US$84m

Jun 30 2023n/an/a

-US$79m

Mar 31 2023n/an/a

-US$66m

Dec 31 2022US$11mUS$492k

-US$54m

Sep 30 2022n/an/a

-US$50m

Jun 30 2022n/an/a

-US$43m

Mar 31 2022n/an/a

-US$34m

Dec 31 2021US$595kUS$450k

-US$32m

Compensation vs Market: Alan's total compensation ($USD1.05M) is below average for companies of similar size in the US market ($USD3.18M).

Compensation vs Earnings: Alan's compensation has been consistent with company performance over the past year.

CEO

Alan Baratz (69 yo)

2.3yrs

Tenure

US$1,045,150

Compensation

Dr. Alan E. Baratz, Ph.D. serves as President since January 01, 2020 and Director at D-Wave Quantum Inc. since January 14, 2020 and is its Chief Executive Officer since August 2022. He serves as Chief Exec...

Leadership Team

NamePositionTenureCompensationOwnership
Alan Baratz
President2.3yrsUS$1.05m0.43%
$ 2.8m
John Markovich
Chief Financial Officer2.3yrsUS$681.80k0.20%
$ 1.3m
Diane Nguyen
General Counsel3.3yrsUS$385.19k0.087%
$ 564.8k
Eric Ladizinsky
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist25.8yrsno datano data
Sophie Ames
Chief Human Resources Officerless than a yearno datano data
Trevor Lanting
Chief Development Officer1.8yrsno datano data
Lorenzo Martinelli
Chief Revenue Officerless than a yearno datano data

2.3yrs

Average Tenure

63yo

Average Age

Experienced Management: QBTS's management team is considered experienced (2.3 years average tenure).

Board Members

NamePositionTenureCompensationOwnership
Alan Baratz
President4.8yrsUS$1.05m0.43%
$ 2.8m
Steven West
Independent Chairman of the Board15.4yrsUS$194.75k0.069%
$ 446.1k
Roger Biscay
Independent Director2.3yrsUS$181.25k0.050%
$ 324.2k
Marc Feldman
Member of the Scientific Advisory Boardno datano datano data
John DiLullo
Directorless than a yearno datano data
Rohit Ghai
Directorless than a yearno datano data
Kirstjen Nielsen
Independent Director1.8yrsno data0.031%
$ 203.5k
Ziv Ehrenfeld
Independent Director1.6yrsno datano data

1.8yrs

Average Tenure

56yo

Average Age

Experienced Board: QBTS's board of directors are not considered experienced ( 1.8 years average tenure), which suggests a new board.