Freeke Heijman-te Paske

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Freeke is a seasoned executive at the forefront of quantum and deeptech innovation. She has a proven trackrecord of building ecosystems at the intersection of policy, academia, and industry. She serves as the Vice-President of European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC) as part of her parttime role at Qblox as government affairs officer. In parallel she is CEO and co-founder of an independent consultancy, advising companies and public institutions on their strategy in deeptech and quantum innovation. Among others, her team has developed a Reusable Quantum Enabling Supply Chain tool (ReQuEST) for NATO and had done a deep dive into the quantum sensing market. Beyond her consultancy roles, Freeke serves on advisory boards for the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, OrangeQS, Universal Quantum and is a two-term Co-Chair of a WEF Global Future Council. As a trained Delft Systems Engineer, she was in senior leadership positions at the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs before dedicating herself to Europe’s quantum technology landscape. As co-founder and first director of QDNL and HoQ, the Dutch national quantum initiative, she spearheaded its €615M Ecosystem Approach, one of the largest public investments per capita in quantum worldwide.