Paul M. Dabbar
Bohr Quantum Technology
Chief Executive Officer
The Honorable Paul M. Dabbar is co-founder and CEO of Bohr Quantum Technology, a spin-out of Caltech focused on developing quantum networking technologies. He is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University, board member at Dominion Energy and continues to advise the U.S. government on national security. Previously the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed him as the U.S. Department of Energy’s fourth Under Secretary for Science. He was the Department's principal advisor on energy research, technologies, science, and commercialization. He managed over 60,000 people at over 100 sites including the majority of the U.S. National Labs. He also developed and ran the National Quantum Initiative for the U.S. Paul also worked in operations, finance, and strategy roles in the energy and national defense sectors. As Managing Director at J.P.Morgan, he had over $400 billion in transaction experience across all energy sectors, and he had a senior leadership role for the company’s commodity trading business. Before J.P.Morgan, he was a nuclear submarine officer, and worked at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab. He has been published in the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, BloombergLaw, Marketwatch, the Hoover Institution/Stanford University, and Columbia University. He is one a small number of people who have traveled to both the geographic North and South Poles (90°N/90°S): to North Pole by submarine to conduct military missions and environmental research, and to South Pole in support of high energy physics missions at South Pole Station. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and Columbia University.
