Kate Waimey Timmerman is CEO of the Chicago Quantum Exchange, a catalyst for advancing academic and industrial efforts in the science and engineering of quantum information. The Exchange is a collaboration between the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northwestern University and more than 30 industry partners. Kate fosters emerging research partnerships, builds education and workforce development initiatives, and grows the regional quantum economy. She is a board member of P33, a private sector initiative to turbocharge Chicago’s tech economy; and chairs the advisory board of QuSTEAM, an NSF-funded initiative to build a national undergraduate curriculum for quantum information science and engineering. Kate earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of California, Davis and her bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College.