Riverlane

Brierley holds a PhD in quantum information and spent a decade in the UK intelligence community before returning to academia as a Senior Research Fellow in computational mathematics at the University of Cambridge. His research identified an empirical doubling of small-scale quantum computer performance every two years — a quantum Moore's law — which convinced him that error correction would be the critical bottleneck. Supported by Cambridge University and ARM co-founder Jamie Urquhart, he founded Riverlane in 2016 to build the error correction stack for quantum computers. He was awarded an OBE in January 2024 for services to quantum computing and advises the UK government on quantum policy.