Thomas Pan started to pay attention to financial markets when he was working for Yahoo! Finance. Reading financial books, magazines, newspapers and blogs is one of his major hobbies. His focus is on macroeconomics, economic megatrends and economic cycles, while he also likes to talk about individual securities and stock trading techniques. He maintains a personal blog site, ThomasPan.com (http://www.thomaspan.com/), where he shares his insightful thoughts of the economy.

Currently, Thomas holds a director position in a Silicon Valley non-profit organization, HYSTA (http://www.hysta.org/) (HuaYuan Science and Technology Association), promoting business relationships between US and China and introducing great business opportunities to US investors. Recently, he has successfully organized events for industry heavyweights, including Min Zhu (co-founder of WebEx), Qi Lu (EVP of Yahoo), James Liang (Chairman of Ctrip) and Jane Sun (CFO of Ctrip), to name a few.

Thomas has many years of experiences in the Internet industry in Silicon Valley. He holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Duke University.