Principal at Clean Energy Ventures
View Live Interactive Profile →Amy Zhao is a Principal at Clean Energy Ventures, promoted to that title in April 2026. Her work focuses on commercializing early-stage industrial decarbonization technologies, with particular experience in green hydrogen applications. Before joining the firm she was a management consultant at Strategy& (PwC), specializing in power and utilities strategy, operational efficiency and regulatory analysis, and interned on Edison International's corporate strategy and venture capital team before business school. At Stanford she was co-president of the Graduate School of Business Energy Club and an investor with the Stanford Impact Fund. She holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics, cum laude, from Harvard University.