Uber’s Ex Legal Chief Joins Quantum Computing Company IonQ

Uber Technologies, Inc.’s former top lawyer Salle Yoo has joined quantum computing company IonQ as chief legal officer, four years after departing the ride share giant.

Yoo was announced as the new top lawyer at College Park, Md.-based IonQ on Monday, shortly after it confirmed it would go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company , dMY Technology Group III.

IonQ was founded in 2015 and produces quantum computing hardware using ionized ytterbium atoms as its quantum bits, or its smallest unit of computation. It boasts partnerships with Microsoft Corp. and Amazon Web Services.

Yoo will ...