Tony Pan, PhD

Tony is the co-founder and CEO of Modern Hydrogen, which produces clean hydrogen by decarbonizing natural gas at the point of use. Modern also sells and sequesters the captured carbon as a clean material to decarbonize the built environment.

Tony is an inventor on 250+ patents pending, spanning fields such as energy, nanoelectronics, and medical devices. Formerly, he was a member of Global Future Council on Energy, World Economic Forum and a Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations. He consulted for the Invention Science Fund, Global Good Fund, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. During the ’08 financial crisis, he was a strategist at Goldman Sachs, helping navigate the mortgage meltdown. Recognitions include the Forbes 30 under 30 in Science, the MIT Technology Review Innovators under 35 and the Business Journal 40 under 40.

Tony’s PhD is from Harvard, where he held three national fellowships from the Hertz Foundation, Soros, and National Science Foundation. There he explored the cosmic dawn, the “Let there be light” moment in the nascent universe, when the very first stars lived and died in spectacular explosions. His alma mater is Stanford University.