Corban Tillemann-Dick
The most structurally central figure in the Colorado quantum ecosystem. CEO of the dilution refrigerator company everyone depends on, and chair of the coalition that secured federal Tech Hub status for the Front Range.
Corban Tillemann-Dick founded Maybell Quantum in 2021 around a contrarian bet: that the bottleneck for quantum computing is not the qubits but the cryogenic infrastructure underneath them. Maybell's ColdCloud product centralizes dilution refrigerators (which cool quantum processors to roughly 15 millikelvin) as a cloud-accessible shared service, letting quantum companies focus on processors and algorithms rather than $1M+ cooling hardware.
He simultaneously chairs Elevate Quantum, the coalition that secured the US Department of Commerce Quantum Tech Hub designation for the Colorado Front Range in 2023. That designation, followed by a $40.5M federal Phase 2 award in July 2024, activated roughly $74M in state matching support and unlocked a pipeline of up to $900M in additional investment. The coalition now coordinates 130 member organizations across industry, academia, government, and workforce development.
The dual role places Tillemann-Dick at the intersection of commercial infrastructure and policy coordination, a position that has shaped how the Colorado ecosystem talks about itself and how federal investment flows into the Front Range.