Alexei Marchenkov
Marchenkov was born in Russia, trained at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and built his research career in nanostructured materials and superconducting quantum circuits, eventually earning tenure as an associate professor at Georgia Tech. Before founding Bleximo in 2017, he worked as an early employee at Rigetti Computing. Bleximo develops application-specific superconducting quantum processors — purpose-built quantum accelerators for near-term use cases such as quantum chemistry — rather than general-purpose quantum computers. The company partnered with Q-CTRL on quantum error mitigation and with NY CREATES for fabrication R&D.