Ethan Brown: Founder and CEO of Beyond Meat
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Ethan Brown left fuel cell and energy policy work, met plant-protein researchers in Missouri in 2009 and founded Beyond Meat.
About Ethan Brown: Founder and CEO of Beyond Meat
Ethan Walden Brown (born 1971) is an American executive, the founder, president and CEO of Beyond Meat. Before founding Beyond Meat he worked on alternative energy and electricity grid restructuring at the National Governors Association's Center for Best Practices, then joined the fuel cell manufacturer Ballard Power Systems, and he served as vice chairman of the board of the National Hydrogen Association and secretary of the U.S. Fuel Cell Council. Brown grew up in and near Washington, D.C., and spent childhood time on his family's farm in Maryland. He graduated from George School in Newtown, Pennsylvania, holds an undergraduate degree from Connecticut College and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, a school founded by his father, Dr. Peter G. Brown, and earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2008. In 2009 Brown visited a research center at the University of Missouri looking for additional uses for soybeans, a major Missouri resource, where he met researchers Fu-hung Hsieh and Harold Huff, who were working on plant-based protein technology that led to Beyond Meat. Sources: English Wikipedia (Ethan Brown (businessman), accessed September 2026).
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Founder, president and CEO, Beyond Meat
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