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Erica Stump (Grant) earned her Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Virginia Tech in 2016 and her doctorate in quantum computing from the Bredesen Center at the University of Tennessee in 2020. While at UT, she founded Quantum Lock, which later became Quantal Security. She holds two patents and has experience in raising government funding and private equity, building and managing products and teams, customer discovery and building customer/partner relationships.