Benj Conway
Benj Conway studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and University College, Oxford before spending a decade in the British Foreign Service. After leaving government, he became an award-winning restaurateur and founded InFrontier, a private equity firm focused on frontier markets that launched the first fund for Afghanistan globally. Conway encountered the University of Washington fusion research of Uri Shumlak and Brian Nelson and co-founded Zap Energy in 2017 to commercialize their sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch approach. As President, he leads company strategy and financing, having raised over $200 million in venture capital for Zap's magnet-free fusion program.