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QUANTUM COMPUTING INC.

, 2026

Dear Fellow Quantum Computing Stockholders:

We invite you to attend the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Quantum Computing Inc. to be held at the Quantum Computing corporate offices located at 5 Marine View Plaza, Suite 214, Hoboken, NJ 07030 on June 24, 2026.

The Notice of the Annual Meeting and proxy statement accompanying this letter provide information concerning matters to be considered and acted upon at the meeting. Immediately following the meeting, a report on our operations will be presented, including a question-and-answer and discussion period. Our 2025 results are presented in detail in our Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 20, 2025.

Your vote is very important. We encourage you to read all of the important information in the proxy statement and vote your shares as soon as possible. Whether or not you plan to attend, you can be sure your shares are represented at the Annual Meeting by promptly submitting your proxy by the Internet, by telephone or, if you request a paper copy of the proxy materials and receive a proxy card, by mail.

On behalf of the Board of Directors, thank you for your continued confidence and investment in Quantum Computing.

Sincerely,
/s/ Yuping Huang
Yuping Huang
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer

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QUANTUM COMPUTING INC.

5 Marine View Plaza, Suite 214
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Telephone: (703) 436-2161

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

to be held on June 24, 2026

To the Stockholders of Quantum Computing Inc.

The 2026 Annual Meeting of the Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of Quantum Computing Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), will be held on June 24, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. local time at the Company’s offices at 5 Marine View Plaza, Suite 214, Hoboken, NJ 07030. The purpose of the meeting is to consider and act upon the following matters:

1. To elect six directors to serve until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors shall have been duly elected and qualified (Proposal No. 1);

2. To approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers as disclosed in the proxy statement with respect to the Annual Meeting (Proposal No. 2);

3. To ratify the selection of BPM LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026 (Proposal No. 3);

4. To approve an amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock (Proposal No. 4);

5. To approve an amendment to the Company’s 2022 Equity and Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares authorized for issuance thereunder and to amend the evergreen provision thereunder (Proposal No. 5); and

6. To transact such other business as may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

The foregoing items of business are more fully described in the proxy statement with respect to the Annual Meeting. Only stockholders of record of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, at the close of business on April 27, 2026, will be entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting or any adjournment thereof.

All stockholders are cordially invited to attend the Annual Meeting. We are providing proxy material access to our stockholders via the Internet at www.cleartrustonline.com/qubt. Please give the proxy materials your careful attention.

QUANTUM COMPUTING INC.
/s/ Yuping Huang
Yuping Huang
Chief Executive Officer
Hoboken, NJ
, 2026

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GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROXY STATEMENT AND ANNUAL MEETING		1
INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOARD AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE		5
Executive Officers and Board of Directors		5
Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports		8
Board Meetings; Attendance at Annual Meetings		8
Board Composition and Director Independence		8
Board Committees; Audit Committee Financial Expert; Stockholder Nominations		9
Involvement in Certain Legal Proceedings		13
Human Capital Management		13
Shareholder Communications		14
Board Leadership Structure		15
Board’s Role in Risk Oversight		15
Insider Trading Policy		15
Anti-Hedging and Anti-Pedging Policy		15
Code of Business Conduct and Ethics		16
Director Orientation and Continuing Education		16
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION		17
Compensation Discussion and Analysis		17
Compensation Committee Report		24
Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation		25
Summary Compensation Table		25
Employment Agreements and Change-in-Control Provisions		26
Outstanding Equity Awards at Year End		29
Option Exercises and Stock Vested in Fiscal Year 2025 Table		29
Director Compensation		30
Pay versus Performance Table		30
Relationship Between Compensation Actually Paid and Performance Measures		31
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER PAY RATIO		32
SECURITIES AUTHORIZED FOR ISSUANCE UNDER EQUITY COMPENSATION PLANS		33
Equity Compensation Plan Information		33
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT		34
TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PERSONS		35
AUDIT-RELATED MATTERS		36
Audit Committee Report		36
MATTERS TO BE VOTED ON		37
Proposal 1: Election of Directors		37
Proposal 2: Non-Binding Advisory Vote to Approve the Compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers		38
Proposal 3: Ratification of BPM LLP as the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2026		39
Proposal 4: Approval of an Amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to Increase the Number of Authorized Shares of Common Stock		41
Proposal 5: Approval of an Amendment to the Company’s Equity Compensation Plan to Increase the Number of Shares Authorized for Issuance Thereunder and to Approve an Amendment to the Company’s 2022 Equity and Incentive Plan to Increase the Number of Shares Authorized for Issuance Thereunder and to Amend the Evergreen Provision Thereunder		43
OTHER BUSINESS		47
STOCKHOLDER PROPOSALS		47
HOUSEHOLDING OF ANNUAL MEETING MATERIALS		48

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QUANTUM COMPUTING INC.

5 Marine View Plaza, Suite 214
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Telephone: (703) 436-2161

PROXY STATEMENT

ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
TO BE HELD ON JUNE 24, 2026

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROXY
STATEMENT AND ANNUAL MEETING

General

This proxy statement relates to the solicitation of proxies by the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Quantum Computing Inc. (the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), for use at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Company’s stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) to be held at 5 Marine View Plaza, Suite 214, Hoboken, NJ 07030, on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. local time, and at any adjournment or postponement thereof, for the purposes set forth in the accompanying Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Whether or not you expect to attend the meeting in person, please submit your proxy to vote your shares, in accordance with the instructions below, as promptly as possible to ensure that your vote is counted. This proxy statement and the form of proxy will first be made available to the Company’s stockholders on or about April 30, 2026. The Annual Meeting will begin promptly at 10:00 a.m. Check-in will begin one-half hour prior to the meeting. Please allow ample time for the check-in procedures.

Notice of Internet Availability

Pursuant to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) “Notice and Access” rules, we are furnishing our proxy materials to our stockholders over the Internet instead of mailing each of our stockholders paper copies of those materials. As a result, we will send our stockholders by mail or email a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, which we sometimes refer to as the “Notice,” containing instructions on how to access our proxy materials over the Internet and how to vote. The Notice is not a ballot or proxy card and cannot be used to vote your shares. The Notice also tells you how to access your proxy card to vote on the Internet or by telephone. If you received a Notice by mail and would like to receive a printed or email copy of the proxy materials, please follow the instructions included in the Notice. You will not receive paper copies of the proxy materials by mail unless you request the materials by following the instructions in the Notice. This process allows us to expedite our stockholders’ receipt of proxy materials, lowers our costs of distribution with respect to the proxy materials for the Annual Meeting, and reduces the environmental impact of the Annual Meeting.

Revocability of Proxies

You can revoke your proxy at any time before the final vote at the meeting. If you are the record holder of your shares, you may revoke your proxy in any one of three ways:

• You may submit another properly completed proxy card with a later date or subsequently submit another proxy to vote your shares via the Internet or via telephone;

• You may send a timely written notice that you are revoking your proxy to the Company at 5 Marine View Plaza, Suite 214, Hoboken, NJ 07030, Attn: Chief Executive Officer; or

• You may attend the Annual Meeting and vote in person. Simply attending the meeting will not, by itself, revoke your proxy.

If your shares are held by your broker or bank as a nominee or agent, you should follow the instructions provided by your broker or bank.

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Solicitation of Proxies

We will bear the cost of solicitation of proxies. Proxies may be solicited by mail or personally by our directors, officers, or employees, none of whom will receive additional compensation for such solicitation. Those holding shares of record for the benefit of others, or nominee holders, are being asked to distribute proxy soliciting materials to, and request voting instructions from, the beneficial owners of such shares. We will reimburse nominee holders for their reasonable out-of-pocket expenses.

Record Date; Stockholders Entitled to Vote

The holders of record of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), at the close of business on April 27, 2026 (the “Record Date”), are entitled to receive notice of, attend, and vote at the Annual Meeting.

If on the Record Date your shares of Common Stock were registered directly in your name with Quantum Computing’s transfer agent, ClearTrust, LLC, then you are a stockholder of record. As a stockholder of record, you may vote in person at the meeting or vote by proxy.

Voting Securities; Quorum

As of the close of business on the Record Date, there were _____________ shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding, which constitutes all of the outstanding capital stock of the Company entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. Holders of Common Stock as of the Record Date are entitled to one vote for each share of Common Stock held by them as of the Record Date.

The presence, in person or by proxy, of the holders of one-third in voting power of all stock of the Company outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting (or ______________ shares of Common Stock) is necessary to constitute a quorum at the Annual Meeting. In the absence of a quorum at the meeting, the meeting may be adjourned from time to time without notice, other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is formed. The proxy card will reflect the number of shares that you are entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. For purposes of the quorum and the discussion below regarding the vote necessary to take stockholder action, stockholders of record who are present at the Annual Meeting in person or by proxy and who abstain, and broker non-votes (as described below), are considered stockholders who are present for purposes of determining the presence of a quorum.

Voting Procedures

Your vote is important no matter how many shares you own. Please take the time to submit a proxy to vote your shares, even if you plan to attend the Annual Meeting and vote in person, to ensure that your shares are represented and voted at the meeting (including if your plans to attend change). Take a moment to read the instructions below. Choose the way that is easiest and most convenient for you, and submit a proxy to vote your shares as soon as possible.

If you are the “record holder” of your shares, meaning that you own your shares in your own name and not through a bank, broker, or other nominee, you may cause your shares to be voted in one of four ways:

• You may submit a proxy to vote your shares over the Internet. You may submit a proxy to vote your shares by visiting www.cleartrustonline.com/qubt and following the instructions.

• You may submit a proxy to vote your shares by telephone. You may submit a proxy to vote your shares by calling 1-813-235-4490.

• You may submit a proxy to vote your shares by mail. If you requested a copy of the proxy materials with respect to the Annual Meeting by mail, or receive a proxy card with a later copy of the Notice by mail, you may cause your shares to be voted by completing, dating and signing your name (exactly as it appears on your proxy card) on the enclosed proxy card and mailing it in the postage-paid envelope provided.

• You may vote in person. You may vote your shares in person if you attend the Annual Meeting.

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Uninstructed Shares

All proxies that are executed and returned or are submitted over the Internet or by telephone will be voted on the matters set forth in the accompanying Notice in accordance with the instructions set forth therein. If no choice is specified as to one or more of the proposals, however, the proxy will be voted in accordance with the Board’s recommendations on such proposals as set forth in this proxy statement.

Shares Held in Street Name

If on the Record Date your shares of Common Stock were held in an account at a brokerage firm, bank, dealer, or other similar entity, rather than in your name, then you are the beneficial owner of shares held in what is referred to as “street name” and the entity holding your account is considered to be the stockholder of record for purposes of voting at the Annual Meeting. As a beneficial owner, you have the right to direct your broker or other agent regarding how to vote the shares in your account. You are also invited to attend the Annual Meeting. As you are not the stockholder of record, however, you may not vote your shares in person at the meeting unless you request and obtain a valid proxy from your broker or other agent.

You will receive instructions from the holder of record that you must follow in order for you to specify how your shares will be voted. If you do not specify how you would like your shares to be voted, your shares held in street name may still be voted but only by certain record holders and only with respect to certain matters. In general, under the rules of the various national and regional securities exchanges, holders of record have the authority to vote shares for which their customers do not provide voting instructions on certain limited routine, uncontested items, but not on non-routine proposals. In the case of non-routine or contested items for which instructions have not been provided, the institution holding street name shares cannot vote those shares. A broker “non-vote” occurs when we receive a proxy from a broker but the shares represented by such proxy are not voted on a particular matter because the broker has not received instructions from the beneficial owner or other persons entitled to vote shares on a particular matter with respect to which the broker does not have discretionary power to vote the shares. If your shares are held of record by a person or institution other than a broker, however, whether those shares can be voted without specific instructions from you will depend on your individual arrangement with that record holder, in particular, whether you have granted such record holder discretionary authority to vote your shares. In the absence of an arrangement with your record holder granting such discretionary authority, your record holder nominee will not have discretionary authority to vote your shares on any matter at the Annual Meeting in the absence of specific voting instructions from you.

The proposal to ratify the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm is considered a “routine” item upon which brokerage firms may vote in their discretion on behalf of their clients if such clients have not furnished voting instructions. If your broker holder of record submits a proxy on your behalf, but does not indicate how your shares of Common Stock should be voted, the shares of Common Stock represented by such proxy will be voted FOR ratification of the appointment of BPM LLP as our independent public accounting firm for 2026. The election of directors and the non-binding advisory vote to approve the compensation of our named executive officers are considered “non-routine” items for which brokerage firms may not vote in their discretion on behalf of clients who do not furnish voting instructions and, thus, there may be “broker non-votes” at the Annual Meeting with respect to these proposals. If you hold your shares in street name in a stock brokerage account, you must provide the record holder of your shares with instructions on how to vote your shares if you wish them to be voted on the election of directors and the non-binding advisory vote on our named executive officer compensation. If your shares are held in street name by a bank or other nominee, you must provide the record holder of your shares with instructions on how to vote your shares if you wish them to be voted on any matter at the Annual Meeting, unless your shares are held of record by a bank or other nominee and you have an arrangement with the nominee granting such nominee discretionary authority to vote your shares.

Your vote is important. Accordingly, please sign and return your bank’s, broker’s, or other nominee’s instructions.

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Votes Required to Approve a Proposal

The following votes are required for approval of the proposals being presented at the Annual Meeting:

Proposal No. 1: Election of Directors. Pursuant to our bylaws, directors are to be elected by a plurality of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting. This means that, assuming a quorum is present, the six candidates receiving the highest number of affirmative votes at the Annual Meeting will be elected as directors. Shares for which a vote is withheld from a director nominee will not be voted with respect to the director nominee indicated and will have no impact on the outcome of the election of directors, although such shares will be counted for the purposes of determining whether there is a quorum. Broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of the vote on this proposal.

Proposal No. 2: To Approve the Compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers. The non-binding advisory proposal to approve the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers as disclosed in this proxy statement requires the approval of a majority of the votes cast on such proposal. Abstentions and broker non-votes, which are not considered votes cast, will have no effect on the outcome of the vote on this proposal.

Proposal No. 3: To Ratify the Selection of BPM LLP as the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2026. Assuming a quorum is present, the proposal to ratify the selection of BPM LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for its current fiscal year requires the approval of a majority of the votes cast on such proposal. Abstentions are not considered as votes cast on this proposal and will have no effect on the outcome of the vote on this proposal. There will be no broker non-votes with respect to this proposal.

Proposal No. 4: To Approve an Amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation to Increase the Number of Authorized Shares of Common Stock. Assuming a quorum is present, the proposal to approve the amendment to the Company’s certificate of incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock requires the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the voting power of the outstanding shares of capital stock entitled to vote thereon. Abstentions and broker non-votes will have the effect of a vote against this proposal. Brokers do not have discretionary authority to vote uninstructed shares on this proposal.

Proposal No. 5: To Approve an Amendment to the Company’s 2022 Equity and Incentive Plan to Increase the Number of Shares Authorized for Issuance Thereunder and to Amend the Evergreen Provision Thereunder. Assuming a quorum is present, the proposal to approve the amendment to the Company’s equity compensation plan requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast on this proposal. Abstentions and broker non-votes are not considered votes cast and will have no effect on the outcome of the vote on this proposal.

Tabulation and Reporting of Voting Results

Preliminary voting results will be announced at the Annual Meeting. Final voting results will be tallied by the inspector of election after the taking of the vote at the Annual Meeting. The Company will publish the final voting results in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC within four business days following the Annual Meeting.

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOARD AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Executive Officers and Board of Directors

Set forth below are the names of and certain biographical information about each executive officer and member of the Board. The information presented includes each officer and director’s principal occupation and business experience for the past five years and the names of other public companies of which he has served as a director during the past five years.

The Board, upon the recommendation of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, has nominated Dr. Yuping Huang, Dr. Carl Weimer, Dr. Javad Shabani, Robert Fagenson, Michael Turmelle and Eric Schwartz for election as directors, each to hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders of the Company and until their successors are elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation or removal.

Name	Current Age	Position
Yuping Huang	47	Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors
Christopher Roberts	71	Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel
Dr. Milan Begliarbekov	41	Chief Operating Officer
Dr. Pouya Dianat	40	Chief Revenue Officer
Dr. Carl Weimer	64	Director
Dr. Javad Shabani	44	Director
Robert Fagenson	77	Director and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
Michael Turmelle	67	Director
Eric Schwartz	42	Director

Yuping Huang has served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer since December 12, 2025, Interim Chief Executive Officer and President since April 11, 2025, Chairman of the Board since December 10, 2024, as Chief Quantum Officer from June 14, 2022 through December 12, 2025, and as a Director since June 14, 2022. Dr. Huang has over 20 years of experience in commercial and academic settings, with pioneering research in a wide spectrum of quantum physics, optics, and technology. Prior to joining the Company, Dr. Yuping founded QPhoton, Inc., where he served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer from 2020 until its acquisition by the Company in 2022. QPhoton was a development stage company commercializing quantum photonic technology and devices to provide innovative and practical quantum solutions for critical challenges facing big data, cyber, remote sensing, and healthcare industries. Dr. Huang worked as a postdoctoral fellow, a research faculty member, and principal investigator at Northwestern University from 2009-2014. Dr. Huang has been a Professor of Physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology, a private research technological university in Hoboken, New Jersey, since 2014 (from 2014 to 2019 as assistant professor, from 2019-2023 as associate professor and as a full professor since 2023). Dr. Huang is the founding director of the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering and Gallagher Associate Professor of Physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He received a Bachelor of Science in modern physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2004 and a PhD in quantum AMO physics in 2009 from Michigan State University. Dr. Huang’s expertise in quantum physics and optics and leadership experience in quantum research qualifies him to serve as a member of the Board.

Christopher Roberts has served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel since June 20, 2025. Mr. Roberts has a law degree from the University of Virginia Law School and a B.S, in Electrical Engineering and an M.B.A., both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His M.B.A. was concentrated in Finance and Management of Technology. He started his career working for Raytheon Co. (a Fortune 500 company). Thereafter, he practiced law at two large NYC law firms. Since leaving the private practice of law, Mr. Roberts has worked primarily in financial management roles with a number of government contractors in the aerospace, defense and Information technology sectors. Mr. Roberts has more than 40 years’ experience in public and private corporate finance and government contracting, including professional services, software products, and hardware manufacturing businesses. Mr. Roberts has served as the Chief Financial Officer of both public and private companies during the course of his career, including Secure Point Technologies, Systems Made Simple, Inc. (now a subsidiary of Leidos), Integral Systems Inc. (a publicly company traded on NASDAQ under the symbol “ISYS” now a subsidiary of Kratos), and Pearson Analytic Solutions (now a subsidiary of General Dynamics). From 2012 to November 2016, he worked first as the CFO, and later as the President of Systems Made Simple, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos.

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From 2018 to June 2023, Mr. Roberts served as Chief Financial Officer of the Company and from July 2023 to June 2025, Mr. Roberts served as a consultant and outside counsel to the Company. Mr. Roberts is a co-author of Antitrust for Business, and has published articles on antitrust and patent law, space policy, information technology, and corporate finance.

Dr. Milan Begliarbekov has served as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer since May 2, 2025. Dr. Begliarbekov brings over 10 years of experience in the semiconductor and optical component manufacturing industry including nanofabrication and materials science. Prior to his current role Dr. Begliarbekov served as Director of Quantum Foundry since 2022. In that position he was responsible for overseeing the development and commercialization of quantum materials, devices, and technologies including thin-film lithium niobate and transition metal ferroelectrics for advanced sensing and photonic computing applications. Prior to joining the Company, he served as Manager, then Director and finally Research Assistant Professor and Director of the Nanofabrication Facility at the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2014 to 2022. In this role, he managed the design, commissioning, and operation of one of the region’s leading nanofabrication centers, supporting academic and industrial users from early-stage startups to established corporations. His responsibilities included process development, equipment oversight, and the leadership of multiple scientific collaborations. Dr. Begliarbekov holds Bachelors, Masters and PhD degrees in Physics and a Bachelor’s degree in Literature from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Dr. Pouya Dianat has served as the Company’s Chief Revenue Officer since May 2, 2025. Dr. Dianat combines over 18 years of experience in the photonics industry including more than a decade in commercialization of photonic technologies and eight years as a graduate student in photonics. Previously Dr. Dianat served as the Director of Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) and Foundry Services, where he led the commercial offerings of the Company’s thin-film lithium niobate technology since July 2024. Dr. Dianat was the Chief Technology Officer for Nanograss Solar LLC., a company commercializing high-speed photodetectors, from 2018 to 2021. From 2021 to 2022, he was Entrepreneur-in-residence at Drexel University, while also working as a scientist at Princeton Infrared Technologies, a company focused on high-end infrared cameras. From March 2022 to July 2023, he was a Senior Photonics Engineer at Optogration, a Luminar Company, where he led commercial offerings, business development and scale-up of photonic detector chips for automotive LIDAR products. Dr. Dianat served as the Market Expert and Director of PIC and Quantum Technologies at OPTICA, a world-leading optics and photonics association, from 2023 to 2024. Dr. Dianat received his PhD and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Dr. Dianat also served a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University.

Dr. Carl Weimer has served as a director of the Company since January 14, 2023. Dr. Weimer has over 25 years of experience in the aerospace industry. He has previously been involved in two companies in the aerospace industry, holding positions including Director of Research, Principal Investigator, Chief Systems Engineer and Chief Technologist. From 1994 through 2000, Dr. Weimer was a Director of Research for Ophir Corporation, an aerospace optics company. From 2000 to 2025 he was Technical Leader for Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (now BAE Systems SMS) developing advanced high-reliability instrumentation, and in 2008 he was awarded a NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal for space-based lidar technologies. Since 2014 he’s been the Chief Technologist for the Civil Business Unit Leading a team performing R&D for future space missions. In addition, Dr. Weimer has been a Principal Investigator for the NASA Earth Science Technology Office since 2008, and he holds seven U.S. patents in optical systems. Dr. Weimer received a Bachelor of Science degree from Harvey Mudd College (1984) and a Master of Science (1987) and a PhD (1992) from Colorado State University, all in experimental Physics. He did his graduate and postdoctoral research in the Ion Storage Group at NIST Boulder and a second postdoc in the Optical Standards Group. Dr. Weimer’s expertise in advanced optics and leadership experience in the aerospace industry qualifies him to serve as a member of the Board.

Dr. Javad Shabani has served as a director of the Company since April 19, 2024. Dr. Shabani has over 13 years of experience in advanced physics and quantum information physics. Dr. Shabani has been a professor in the New York University Physics Department and director of the NYU Center for Quantum Information Physics since 2024. From 2022 to 2024, he was an Associate Professor at the NYU Physics Department. From 2017 to 2022, he was an Assistant Professor at the NYU Physics Department. From 2015 to 2017, Dr. Shabani was an Assistant Professor at the City College of New York Physics Department. From 2014 to 2015, he was a Project Scientist in the California Nanosystems Institute at the University of California Santa Barbara. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Physics Department from 2011 to 2012 and the California Nanosystems Institute at the University of California Santa Barbara from 2012 to 2014. He was awarded the IBM Q Scholar Award in 2021, and the US Air Force Young Investigator

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Program Award and the US Army Young Investigator Award in 2016. Dr. Shabani holds four patents in quantum physics applications and has published over 85 papers. Dr. Shabani received Bachelor of Science degrees in physics and electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology (2004) a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz (2005), a Master of Arts in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University (2007) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University (2011). Dr. Shabani’s scholarship and experience in physics and electrical engineering qualifies him to serve on the Board to help lead the Company towards continued growth and success.

Robert Fagenson has served as a Director of the Company since March 2021 and as Vice Chairman since December 10, 2024. Mr. Fagenson has served as a member of the board of directors of National Holdings Corporation (“NHC”), a broker-dealer, since March 2012. He has served as Vice Chairman of the board of directors of NHC since September 2016. Mr. Fagenson previously served as co-Chief Executive Officer of NHC from January 3, 2017 to January 31, 2017, as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors of NHC from December 2014 to September 2016, and as Executive Vice-Chairman of the board of directors of NHC from July 2012 to December 2014. NHC was acquired by B. Riley Financial in February 2024. Mr. Fagenson has been a branch owner at National Securities Corp, an operating company of NHC, since 2012, and president of Fagenson & Co., Inc., a family investment company, since 1982. Mr. Fagenson spent the majority of his career at the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), where he was managing partner of one of the exchange’s largest specialist firms. While at the NYSE, Mr. Fagenson served as a governor on the trading floor and was elected to the NYSE board of directors in 1993, where he served for six years, eventually becoming vice chairman of the NYSE board of directors from 1998 to 1999 and 2003 to 2004. Mr. Fagenson has served as director of the New York City Police Museum since 2005 and as director of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association Foundation since 2009. He has also served on the board of directors of Sigma Alpha Mu Foundation since 2011 and on the board of directors of New York Edge since 2015. In addition, Mr. Fagenson served as the non-executive chairman of Document Security Systems, Inc. from 2012 to 2018 (NYSEMKT: DSS). He is currently a member of the alumni boards of the Whitman School of Business at Syracuse University. Mr. Fagenson received his B.S. in Transportation Sciences & Finance from Syracuse University in 1970. Mr. Fagenson’s experience in the financial services industry and in senior leadership positions qualifies him to serve as a member of the board and as chairman of the compensation committee.

Michael Turmelle has served as a Director of the Company since January 2022. Mr. Turmelle has served on the board of directors of Ideal Power Inc. since December 2017 and as chairman of the Ideal Power board since 2021. From January 2018 through January 2024, Mr. Turmelle served as the Managing Director of Hayward Tyler, a United Kingdom private equity-backed manufacturer and service provider of pumps and motors, which he joined in February 2015. Mr. Turmelle also served on the boards of Hayward Tyler and Energy Steel (a Hayward Tyler subsidiary) from 2017 until January 2024. Hayward Tyler designs, manufactures, and services performance-critical electric motors and pumps to meet the most demanding of applications for the global energy industry, as both an original equipment manufacturer supplier and trusted partner. Previously, Mr. Turmelle ran his own consulting company, working with start-ups and turn-arounds in the areas of renewable energy, medical, and other advanced technologies. Mr. Turmelle has served on numerous Boards of Directors including the Board of Directors of Implant Sciences Corp., an explosive and narcotic trace detection company, where he served as Chairman of the Board from 2015 to 2017. Mr. Turmelle was Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of SatCon Technology Corporation, a maker of energy management systems, from 1992 to 2005. Mr. Turmelle was also on the Board of Directors of Beacon Power, a SatCon spin-off company dealing in flywheel energy storage, from 1996 to 2000. Mr. Turmelle has a BA in Economics from Amherst College and is a graduate of General Electric’s Financial Management Program. Mr. Turmelle’s experience as a public company director and executive as well as extensive experience in finance, business operations and technology, qualifies him to serve as a member of the Board and as chairman of the Audit committee.

Eric M. Schwartz has served as a Director of the Company since March 26, 2025. Mr. Schwartz has 20 years of experience in corporate finance, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategy and general corporate management. Since 2016 he has served as Managing Director of Castle Harlan, the New York private equity firm, which he first joined in 2007. Previously, Mr. Schwartz was an investment banking professional at Citigroup Global Markets, during which time he advised clients on mergers and acquisitions across a broad range of industries. Mr. Schwartz is currently a board member of Sunless, a manufacturer of equipment and related products for the skincare industry, and Titan Production Equipment, an engineering and equipment fabricator for the traditional and clean energy industries. He previously served as a board member of several other Castle Harlan portfolio companies, including Baker & Taylor, Caribbean Restaurants, Pretium Packaging and Shelf Drilling. Mr. Schwartz graduated

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Family Relationships

There are no family relationships between any of our directors and executive officers.

Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports

Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires the Company’s directors, executive officers and persons who beneficially own 10% or more of a class of securities registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act to file reports of beneficial ownership and changes in beneficial ownership with the SEC. Directors, executive officers and greater than 10% stockholders are required by the rules and regulations of the SEC to furnish the Company with copies of all reports filed by them in compliance with Section 16(a).

Based solely upon a review of Forms 3 and 4 and amendments thereto furnished to the Company during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, including those reports that we have filed on behalf of our directors and Section 16 officers, no director, Section 16 officer, beneficial owner of more than 10% of the outstanding common stock, or any other person subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, failed to file with the SEC on a timely basis during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, except (i) as previously disclosed by the Company, (ii) Pouya Dianat filed a Form 3 on May 21, 2025, which was delinquent, in connection with his appointment as the Company’s Chief Revenue Officer, which occurred on May 2, 2025, (iii) Pouya Dianat filed a Form 4 on June 5, 2025, which was delinquent, in connection with his acquisition of common stock, the earliest of which occurred on May 22, 2025, (iv) Michael Turmelle filed a Form 4 on June 11, 2025, which was delinquent, in connection with his acquisition of common stock, the earliest of which occurred on June 3, 2025, (v) Yuping Huang filed a Form 4 on September 17, 2025, which was delinquent, in connection with his acquisition of common stock, the earliest of which occurred on September 12, 2025, (vi) Robert Fagenson filed a Form 4 on September 17, 2025, which was delinquent, in connection with his acquisition of common stock, the earliest of which occurred on September 9, 2025, (vii) Javad Shabani filed a Form 4 on September 8, 2025, which was delinquent, in connection with his acquisition and disposal of common stock, the earliest of which occurred on August 18, 2025, (viii) Pouya Dianat filed a Form 4 on September 4, 2025, which was delinquent, in connection with his acquisition and disposal of common stock, the earliest of which occurred on August 18, 2025, (ix) Milan Begliarbekov filed a Form 3 on January 12, 2026, which was delinquent, in connection with his appointment as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer, which occurred on May 2, 2025, and (x) Milan Begliarbekov filed a Form 4 on January 12, 2026, which was delinquent, in connection with his acquisition and disposal of common stock, the earliest of which occurred on December 31, 2025.

Board Meetings; Attendance at Annual Meetings

The Board met 16 times during the year ended December 31, 2025. Each Director attended at least 90% of the total number of meetings of the Board and the Board committees of which he was a member during 2025.

While the Board does not have a formal policy, all directors are encouraged to attend our annual meetings of stockholders. All six of our six then-serving Board members attended our 2025 annual meeting of stockholders.

Board Composition and Director Independence

The Board is authorized to have up to seven members and currently consists of six members. The nominees elected as directors at the Annual Meeting will serve until our next annual meeting and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Nasdaq Listing Rule 5605 requires a majority of a listed company’s board of directors be composed of independent directors. In addition, Nasdaq Listing Rules require that, subject to specified exceptions, each member of a listed company’s audit, compensation, and nominating committees be independent, and that compensation and audit committee members also satisfy additional independence criteria under the Exchange Act. Compensation committee members also should qualify as “non-employee directors” under Rule 16b-3 of the Exchange Act.

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In making the determination of whether a member of the Board is independent, the Board considers, among other things, transactions and relationships between each director and his immediate family and the Company, relationships between each director and any customer or creditor of the Company, any arrangements with any person pursuant to which they were selected as a director, if any, and affiliation with the Company’s legal counsel, auditors and underwriters, including those reported under the caption “Certain Relationships and Related-Party Transactions.” The purpose of this review is to determine whether any such relationships or transactions are material and, therefore, inconsistent with a determination that the directors are independent. On the basis of such review and its understanding of such relationships and transactions, if any, the Board affirmatively determined that each of Robert Fagenson, Michael Turmelle, Javad Shabani, Eric Schwartz and Carl Weimer are qualified as independent as each has no material relationship with us that might interfere with his exercise of independent judgment in carrying out his responsibilities as a director.

Board Committees; Audit Committee Financial Expert; Stockholder Nominations

The Board has established an audit committee, a compensation committee, and a nominating and corporate governance committee. Each committee has its own charter, which is available on our website at www.quantumcomputinginc.com. Each of such Board committees has the composition and responsibilities described below.

The following table identifies the committee members:

Name	Audit	Compensation	Nominating and Corporate Governance	Risk	Independent
Robert Fagenson	X	Chairman			X
Michael Turmelle	Chairman

SEC Form PRE 14A filed by Quantum Computing Inc.