Company: IONQ
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0000950170-25-027713
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Company: IonQ, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 5.02
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Item 5.02 Departures of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

Appointment of Director

On February 24, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company increased the size of the Board from eight to nine directors and, following the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board, appointed Gabrielle Toledano to serve as a member of the Board, effective on February 24, 2025. Ms. Toledano was appointed as a Class III director whose term will expire at the Company’s 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The Board has determined that Ms. Toledano is “independent” pursuant to the rules of The New York Stock Exchange (“ NYSE”) and other governing laws and applicable regulations.

Since 2020, Ms. Toledano has served as the Chief Operating Officer at Keystone Strategy, a global technology and advisory firm. Prior to Keystone, Ms. Toledano was Executive in Residence for Comcast Ventures in 2019 and Chief People Officer at Tesla from 2017 to 2018. Ms. Toledano served as Chief Talent Officer at Electronic Arts from 2006 to 2017 and Chief Human Resources Officer for Siebel Systems from 2002 to 2006. From 1991 to 2002, Ms. Toledano served in human resources leadership positions with Microsoft and Oracle. Ms. Toledano serves as a director on the boards of Fountain, a private technology company focused on frontline workforce management, and Altanine, a private pharmaceutical company. During her career she has also served as a director on the boards of Bose Corporation, Glu Mobile, Lilium, Velo3D, Vaxxinity and Jive Software. Ms. Toledano received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University.

There is no arrangement or understanding between Ms. Toledano and any other person pursuant to which she was selected as a director, and there is no family relationship between Ms. Toledano and any of the Company’s other directors or executive officers. There are no transactions between Ms. Toledano and the Company that would be required to be reported under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

As a non-employee director of the Company, Ms. Toledano is eligible to participate in the Company’s Amended and Restated Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy, pursuant to which she will