Tony Pan founded Borrowing Arrows, a research and licensing venture focused on China’s deep-tech frontier, from AI and semiconductors to energy and aerospace.
Tony is a board director at Ammobia. Previously he was co-founder and CEO of Modern Electron and Modern Hydrogen, which raised $130M for clean energy and materials. He is a co-inventor on 200+ issued patents worldwide, spanning energy, semiconductors, aerospace, and medical devices.
Formerly, he was a member of the Global Future Council on Energy at the World Economic Forum, and he is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He consulted for the Invention Science Fund, the Global Good Fund, and the Gates Foundation. During the 2008 financial crisis, he was a strategist at Goldman Sachs, helping navigate the mortgage meltdown. Recognitions include Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science, MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35, and the Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40 Under 40, and its Environmental and Sustainability Award.
Tony’s PhD is from Harvard, where he held national fellowships from the Hertz Foundation, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, 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.
