Chief Executive Officer, Qunnect
Noel is the CEO of Qunnect, a company innovating first-in-class hardware to transform the existing telecom infrastructure into quantum-secure communication networks. Noel joined Qunnect’s management team in 2020. Prior to this role, she was a seed investor with the Accelerate NY Seed Fund, where she built a portfolio of companies across deep technology and life science sectors in Downstate NY. Noel is a serial entrepreneur, having founded/led two biotech startup companies. Before joining the startup community, Noel was an assistant professor of physics at Hunter College, CUNY. She completed her postdoctoral research as a fellow at Harvard University and earned her PhD at Rockefeller University. Fun fact: Noel was an avid sportbike motorcyclist for 10 years.