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Benj Conway

President & Co-founder

Benj Conway is an entrepreneur, investor, and former diplomat, and the co-founder and President of Zap Energy.

Conway co-founded Zap Energy with Uri Shumlak and Brian A. Nelson in 2017 and served as CEO through nearly a decade of growth. He built Zap into a fusion energy leader before expanding its ambition to invent, develop, and deploy the full spectrum of advanced nuclear energy systems. Before Zap, Conway worked and invested in emerging markets. He began his career at the British Foreign Office, spending much of a decade overseas across Asia and the Middle East. He studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (First Class) and at University College, Oxford.

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