Summary
Tom Hubregtsen is a founder and CEO with 10 years of hands-on and managerial experience across the full machine learning pipeline, now building electrified autonomous vehicles for farming and defense. He combines deep research credentials—PhD-level work in quantum machine learning and research roles at X (Google), BMW, and IBM—with entrepreneurial leadership as co-founder/COO of a hardware-software startup that raised $14.1M. Author of 5+ peer-reviewed papers and the lead on 20+ patents, Tom uniquely bridges cutting-edge quantum ML research and production AI systems, including work simulating QML circuits on Google’s largest TPU cluster. He has a strong embedded systems and electrical engineering background from Delft and Avans, which informs his hardware-first approach to energy-efficient computing and autonomy. Based in Valencia, he is as comfortable communicating ML strategy to Fortune 100 boards as he is implementing low-level system and vehicle controls. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of aligning corporate roadmaps with national and European quantum initiatives, turning research into funded, deployable technology.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Electrical Engineering, Bachelor Electrical Engineering at Avans University of Applied Sciences
PhD Physics/Computer Science, PhD Physics/Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin
Master’s Degree Embedded Systems, Master’s Degree Embedded Systems at Delft University of Technology
English, Dutch, German