Sheldon Pang is a prominent AAPI business leader in international trade, finance, and emission reduction. Sheldon currently serves as Vice Chairman of Freepoint Commodities LLC and Chairman of Freepoint Solar. For two decades prior to Freepoint, Sheldon served as President of the Pacific Group and Vice Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets, and as a Managing Director at AIG International, where he built successful businesses raising funds for U.S. and Canadian government and agency debt.
Sheldon started his career as a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s. Through two U.S. presidential appointments, Sheldon served on the White House Commission for Presidential Scholars and on the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts.
A lifetime member of OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates, Pang is a recipient of the OCA WHV’s Dynamic Achiever Award. Pang’s other civic engagements include serving on the Foreign Policy Leadership Committee at the Brookings Institute, the board for National Committee on US-China Relations, and the board of USA Water Polo. Sheldon received a doctoral degree from MIT and a master’s degree from Vanderbilt University. A beneficiary of scholarships that made his advanced education possible, Sheldon has been a dedicated supporter of educational causes, including serving on the board of Carmel Academy, the Asia Advisory Council of Brown University, the American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation, and establishing scholarship funds at MIT and Brown University.
