Jack Hidary
Serial Entrepreneur & CEO - Sandbox AQ
Jack leads Sandbox AQ, an enterprise SaaS company delivering solutions that leverage quantum tech and AI and run on today’s classical computing platforms. He is also the author of Quantum Computing: An Applied Approach (Springer, 2nd edition), one of the leading textbooks in the field and is used both in PhD programs and corporate training sessions.
As a serial entrepreneur and founder of several tech companies, including EarthWeb/Dice (NYSE: DHX), which he led through a record-breaking IPO -- Jack also co-founded Vista Research, which he then sold to Standard and Poors/McGraw-Hill.
He's a trustee of the X Prize Foundation and has been a board member of Trickle Up, which helps thousands of entrepreneurs start small businesses each year. His foundation, The Hidary Foundation, is dedicated to medical oncology research and has supported work at Sloan Kettering and UCSF.
Jack has been recognized for his leadership by organizations such as the World Economic Forum, HealthCorps, and Young Presidents’ Organization. Jack studied neuroscience at Columbia and subsequently received the Stanley Fellowship in Clinical Neuroscience at NIH where he worked on functional brain imaging and neural networks.

