Christopher Monroe, pioneer of trapped-ion quantum computing, co-authored the first two-qubit CNOT gate in 1995 and shaped scalable ion-trap architectures that power today’s top quantum computers. As co-founder of IonQ, he turned decades of research into cloud-accessible systems on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Balancing caution on hype with optimism, Monroe bridges deep science and commercialization, proving that quantum computing and enterprise innovation are not future myt