Dr Tuan-Anh Tran
Co-founder and CEO of Solano
Dr Tuan-Anh Tran (TA) is a co-founder and CEO of Solano, a technology startup developing advanced distributed solutions for energy supply and industrial automation.
Prior to Solano, TA worked at Alabaster with Misfit Wearables’ founder, a global VC investing in deeptech startups in energy, materials, and foodtech. He used to be a researcher at the University of Oxford, where he developed the world-first Gigabit/s LiFi system. He also spent time building high-frequency investment strategies at the quantitative hedge-fund IKOS, developing control technology for aircraft engines at Rolls-Royce plc, and working on power-plant developments at global engineering consultancy Mott MacDonald.
TA holds a doctorate in Engineering Science from the University at Oxford, fully funded by the highly-competitive Clarendon Scholarship, and graduated with a Double First in the prestigious Engineering, Economics and Management (EEM) also at Oxford.