Global Team Members
Co-Captain; he was named for 4 straight years a Scholar- Athlete of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). Following Princeton he was recruited to Lazard’s Investment Banking group specializing in healthcare mergers and acquisitions. As Baret’s CFO and COO, Noah will guide the complex operational aspects of Baret Scholars, including booking roughly 40,000 hotel room nights in our first year of operations. Education: Princeton University, BA Languages: Spanish, English, German Birthplace: New York City Lived in: Germany, Argentina, United States, Special Book: When Breath Becomes Air , Paul Kalanithi
100 campuses with 60,000 students. In 2012, Chris co-founded Avenues: The World School, now one of the largest private schools in New York City with campuses in São Paulo, Shenzhen, and Silicon Valley as well. Chris also built the two Whittle School & Studios campuses in Shenzhen and Suzhou. He is one of the few entrepreneurs to found not one but two “unicorns,” the Silicon Valley moniker for entities realizing market valuations of over $1B. Inspired by his own, year- long, post-college circuit of the globe and by the 180 full-ride, 5-year scholarships he funded which included a year abroad, Chris conceived and is full-time Executive Chairman of Baret Scholars. Education: University of Tennessee Languages: English Birthplace: Etowah, Tennessee Lived in: United States Special Book: Magister Ludi , Herman Hesse
first job, he took a gap year around his home country of India, in Greece (Athens, Delphi, Arcadia, Hydra), Israel, Jordan and Thailand. Crossing the Allenby Bridge into Jordan during that year remains an important moment for him. Education: Yale University, BA Languages: Hindi, English, Bengali Birthplace: Ipswich, UK Lived in: India, United States, United Kingdom, Denmark Special Book: In Search of Lost Time , Marcel Proust
has been a theme at Bain, Google, Verizon and an online insurance start-up called Lemonade. Passing on her good fortune, while at Harvard, she co-founded a leadership conference for underprivileged high school students in Korea. Education: Harvard University, BA; Gates Millennium Scholar Languages: Korean, English Birthplace: Baton Rouge, Louisiana Lived in: Korea, United States Special Book: The Giving Tree , Shel Silverstein
NOAH AGARWAL, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER BASED: NEW YORK CITY With Swiss and Indian parents, Noah says that the idea of an independent year between high school and college was assumed and supported. Having grown up in the particularly competitive, pressure-cooked environment of New York City independent schools, both his sister (who provided good, early advice to Baret on the balance of structure and independence) and Noah benefited from gap years which they self-styled. A Summa Cum Laude graduate of Princeton in International Affairs, Noah spent his year between high school and college in Argentina, advancing his Spanish, attending a French cooking school, hiking in Patagonia and, very effectively it seems, advancing his tennis game. A year later he “walked on” to the Princeton team—the first “walk on” in two decades— and by his senior year was its
CHRIS WHITTLE, EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN BASED: CONNECTICUT
FARHAD ANKLESARIA, HEAD OF GLOBAL STUDENT
JAEIN SEO, DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL HIGHER ED RELATIONSHIPS BASED: NEW YORK CITY Probably the first in Harvard history, Jaein did her senior thesis on the food trucks of New York, titled “The New Kid on the Block: How Food Trucks Have Transformed from Roach Coaches to Cultural Phenomenon.” Her hands-down favorite was a lorry of lobster rolls on 6th Avenue near 53rd Street. Jaein, the daughter of a mechanical engineer and a children’s book author, grew up surrounded by numbers and words. Moving from Korea to the United States when she was 10, she did not know a word of English, but after living in local libraries for months, she was quickly accepted into a “gifted” program. And she could clearly write, serving as an editor at the Harvard Crimson and doing internships at the Huffington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Chosun Ilbo back home. Professionally, marketing
RECRUITMENT BASED: LONDON
Raised in a small town along the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, he’s the one who recommended the Baret Fellowship 73-mile trek on the Appalachian Trail! Early on, Chris enjoyed building things, constructing forts and cabins with young friends in the woods they would play in. And build he did. In his 50-year career, Chris founded and led 5 education
Reading the Iliad and the Odyssey in the original Homeric Greek and hosting one of the largest and most successful parties Yale has ever seen (Electro) reveal the range of Farhad’s personality. He’s a natural-born advisor to students. Following Yale, he worked at ReD Associates in New York and Copenhagen, but he soon moved back to India to form a highly successful, full-service college consultancy, guiding 100s of students over a decade. Studying to one day become a psychoanalyst, his Saturdays in London are spent at an institute understanding Freud and Lacan. He enjoys writing metrical poetry and is the author of a beautiful book on grammar—he also co-wrote and edited the book you are reading right now. We’re told he can identify almost any tree in Delhi where he also became a national level swimmer. Quitting his
and media endeavors, employing over 8,000
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team members. Founded in his college apartment, Whittle Communications grew to be one of America’s top 100 media companies, publishing Esquire and broadcasting daily to 8,000,000 students through the Channel One network, with Anderson Cooper as its first anchor. In the mid- 1990s, along with former Yale University President Benno Schmidt, Chris pioneered the charter school movement, establishing over
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