Tanguy Chau Ph.D

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Biography

Dr. Tanguy Chau is a Co-Founder of KF20 Capital. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Paxton AI. Dr. Tanguy Chau served as Principal at Mayfield Fund. He served as an Executive at Formation 8. He serves as Board Member at Algal Scientific. Prior to Formation 8, he managed teams and projects for McKinsey & Company's tech and healthcare practice in Palo Alto. Before that, he led energy investments with the Angeleno Group, a growth equity firm in Los Angeles. He also founded Sample6 Technologies (formerly Novophage), a synthetic biology company enhancing food safety, and served as its CTO. He served on the Board of Directors for the Harvard COOP and was elected to the MIT Board of Trustees in 2012. Mr. Tanguy received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, and MBA in Finance from MIT; and was a University Medal Finalist at UC Berkeley where he completed his undergraduate. He also competed internationally as a member of the Belgian national sailing team, and the Belgian chemistry Olympiad team. He served as Board Member at FieldWireLabs.