IonQ CFO/COO Power Move: Sales Trigger Unlocked

🚀 Battle Card: IonQ

• Inder M. Singh, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer · 🔗 LinkedIn

• This IonQ sales trigger signals a push for stronger financial governance and streamlined operations as IonQ scales its commercial quantum offerings. → Source

• Optimizing capital allocation for aggressive qubit expansion

• Building operational frameworks to ramp quantum hardware production

• Primary: FP&A and financial planning platform → Accelerate forecasting and optimize capital spend

• Expansion: Supply chain orchestration solution → Streamline quantum hardware manufacturing and delivery

• HQ: College Park, MD

• Employees: 500

• Rev: $22 M (2023)

• Website: ionq.com

🤼 Competitive Intel

• Oracle — ERP / Finance & SCM
• Unique edge: Integrated global suite with deep analytics
• Evaluated by CFO for compliance and scale

• Workday — Financial Management
• Unique edge: Cloud-native platform with AI-driven insights
• Evaluated by CFO for real-time reporting

• Anaplan — FP&A
• Unique edge: Connected planning across finance and ops
• Evaluated by Finance Planning teams for scenario modeling

• Coupa — Procurement / Spend Management
• Unique edge: Real-time spend visibility and control
• Evaluated by Procurement and Ops for cost savings

• Kinaxis — Supply Chain Planning
• Unique edge: Rapid what-if scenario analysis
• Evaluated by VP Ops for responsiveness

✅ Do-Now Checklist

Next Step

🧠 Copy My Prompt for Personalized Cold Outreach

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✏️ YOUR COMPANY
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OUR_COMPANY   = ❑<your company>❑
OFFER_BRIEF   = ❑≈ TBD❑
PROOF_METRIC  = ❑≈ TBD❑
CTA_STYLE     = ❑quick_call | case_study❑
TONE          = ❑friendly | punchy❑

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📌 TARGET COMPANY
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NAME        = Inder
COMPANY     = IonQ
DEPT        = Finance & Operations
SIZE        = 500
BOTTLENECK  = optimizing capital allocation
EVENT       = new CFO & COO appointment
DETAIL      = appointed as CFO & COO
PAIN        = need to streamline quantum hardware production
SRC         = http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=ftfLlWd9aZbF2NXfwppam3Bd664=&newsLang=en&newsId=20250904472845&div=41152219
SIM_CO      = ≈ TBD
WIN_METRIC  = ≈ TBD
NEXT_SIZE   = ≈ TBD
EMP_EST     = ≈ TBD
REV_EST     = ≈ TBD

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TASK FOR CHATGPT
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Role: “NewsletterForLeads SDR-Assist”.

Validate any ≈ guesses via SRC.

EMAIL  (keep breaks):
Subject: 500-person Finance & Operations

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That’s when optimizing capital allocation slows growth.

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Result: ≈ TBD.  
Quick call?

PS—next bottleneck hits ≈ TBD.

DM ≤45 words, TONE:
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≈ TBD. ≈ TBD.  
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