Geordie Rose

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Geordie Rose co-founded Sanctuary in 2018 and is our CEO. Prior to Sanctuary, Geordie founded D­-Wave, the world’s first quantum computing company, and was the CEO of Kindred, the world’s first robotics company to use reinforcement learning in a production environment. He has sold quantum computers and robots that learn to Google, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Gap Inc., and several US government agencies. He was named the 2011 Canadian Innovator of the Year, was listed on Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2013, and won the 2014 Canadian Technology Leader award.

Geordie holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of British Columbia. He is a two-time Canadian national wrestling champion and is a member of the McMaster University Hall of Fame, won the 2010 NAGA world championships in Brazilian Jiu­-Jitsu in both gi and no-­gi categories and is currently a brown belt, won the BC provincial A beach volleyball championship with Jason Hall in 2003, for a short time held the Guinness Book of World Records world record for the most yogurt eaten in one minute, was a past holder of British Columbia powerlifting records in deadlift, bench press and total for the 105kg masters division, and has completed eight half marathons and two full marathons.