Trevor Best

Trevor Best is the co-founder, CEO, and Board Chair of Syzygy Plasmonics. Trevor began his career with Baker Hughes—gaining deep expertise in technology deployment, project execution, quality systems, and regulatory compliance. In 2018, he co-founded Syzygy alongside CTO Dr. Suman Khatiwada, bringing plasmonics out of the lab and into scalable, real-world applications. Since then, Trevor has overseen scaling Syzygy’s technology to a commercial level, raising more than $135 million in venture funding, winning grants from DOE ARPA‑E and NSF, successfully deploying three separate pilot plants for different chemical reactions, and negotiating the landmark SAF offtake agreement with Trafigura.