Peter Tysowski

Quantum Consulting Leader, Insurance, IBM

Peter Tysowski leads quantum consulting efforts globally for the financial services industry at IBM. He enables banking and insurance clients to achieve a state of business readiness for quantum technology and to find disruptive new value through IBM’s Quantum Accelerator program. Previously, he has advised financial services clients in the U.S. on strategic digital transformations as a management consultant at Strategy& and led software engineering and product management efforts on emerging technologies at the smartphone maker BlackBerry. He has conducted research into the engineering of Quantum Key Distribution networks at the Institute for Quantum Computing, and previously contributed to the fields of cloud computing security and software requirements engineering. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo and an MBA in Finance from Wilfrid Laurier University. He has been granted over 50 technology-related patents and is a licensed professional engineer.