Quick answers
Did Bob Wiens co-found D-Wave?
His board biography at InspireHealth, the British Columbia cancer-support non-profit where he is a director, states that he was "a co-founder and the CFO of D-Wave Systems Inc." (InspireHealth board page, checked 2026-09-21). D-Wave's own management team page from the company's early years lists "Bob Wiens CA MBA, Chief Financial Officer", though it does not use the word co-founder (dwavesys.com management team, Internet Archive capture 2003-01-08).
What did Bob Wiens do before D-Wave?
He was with Arthur Andersen & Co. from 1971 to 1987, most recently as managing partner of the Vancouver office, then president and CEO of the Vancouver records-management business FACS Records Centre Inc. from 1987 to 2001 (dwavesys.com management team, Internet Archive capture 2003-01-08). He holds a BComm from the University of Calgary and an MBA from Columbia University (InspireHealth board page, checked 2026-09-21).
Is he still involved with D-Wave?
No. D-Wave's current leadership page does not list him (D-Wave leadership page, checked 2026-09-21), and his InspireHealth biography describes him as a retired executive and financial manager (InspireHealth board page, checked 2026-09-21).
What is D-Wave?
A quantum computing company whose own early history page says it was spun out of the University of British Columbia in 1999 and that its mission since inception has been to commercialize superconductor-based quantum computer processors (dwavesys.com history page, Internet Archive capture 2005-11-27). A 2007-09-12 feature in The Walrus described it as a Burnaby-based start-up.