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      "text": "Executive Officers: Peter Chapman. Mr. Chapman has served as our president and chief executive officer and a member of our board of directors since May 2019. From September 2014 to May 2019, Mr. Chapman served as a director of engineering for Amazon Prime at Amazon.com, Inc. prior to joining IonQ. Before that, Mr. Chapman was the president at Media Arc, Inc. We believe Mr. Chapman is well qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his prior leadership and officer positions at technology and software companies.",
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      "text": "Far from being a child prodigy, we suspect his purported gig at MIT at age 16 was simply nepotism. Chapman has stated his father was an astronaut, who we believe to be Philip Chapman, whose Wikipedia profile states did his doctorate at MIT in the 1960's and then appears to have remained in the Cambridge/Boston research scene. We note that Peter Chapman’s profile on the IonQ site and in SEC filings not only fails to list MIT, but lists no educational credentials at all. We are left to ponder his mysterious background - did Chapman even attend college, does the child prodigy have a computer science degree; if so, from where? We further question which other claims in his bio are true – “inventing the original sound card for computers”; “writing the software” the FAA “uses to prevent mid-air collisions”; and so forth.",
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