small happy hour meetups to reconnect with friends, she suddenly found herself orchestrating large-scale events with up to 3,500 attendees. For the past twenty years she has been the behind-the-scenes magic for a variety of corporate and social events. An avid athlete, she has been the captain of her club’s tennis team for many years. Her drive to make our Morning Program a truly special event is felt day-in, day-out at Baret. Languages: Spanish, English, French Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina Lived In: Argentina Special Book: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
30+ podcast episodes, and producing two art-tech summits. She was the Event & Creative Producer for the LabKO Summit with KOKO, helping to curate the launch of a tech design platform hosting the world’s most exciting tech innovators and thought leaders. From set design to ceramics, Olivia enjoys thinking on different scales, and her next project, CIRCOL, a semi-circular sketchbook, launched this summer. Olivia will lead Fellowships in the Creative and Innovation Domains, including a journey to Silicon Valley to explore tech entrepreneurship. Education: University of Oxford (BFA) Languages: English, Spanish, French Birthplace: Paris, France Lived In: Spain, UK, France, Nepal Special Book: Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality , Federico Campagna
enamored with musical comedy, and if she sees a mic and a stage, she will jump up and sing! Florencia is one-half of Baret’s advance team and an absolutely vital part of the behind-the-scenes work that keeps our Morning Program running so smoothly: before Baret arrives in any region, she has been there to scout locations and collaborate with our local contacts. We could not do it without her. Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina Lived In: Argentina Special Book: The Agile Mind: How Your Brain Makes Creativity Happen, Estanislao Bachrach
achievements at the workplace. Her next stop was at Russell Reynolds & Associates, where she worked on everything from CEO searches to helping author a “CEO Review” of leaders in the consumer sector. Her interest in giving back continued, as she supported the Smart Works Charity and the Princess Trust. She loves cooking and trying out
OLIVIA WILLIAMSON DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS AND CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT BASED : LONDON Born in Paris and raised in the Tramuntana Mountains of Mallorca, at 16, Olivia left for a UK boarding school to pursue art. During her gap year she spentthree transformative months in rural Nepal on a project supporting access to education for girls of all ages. Olivia then graduated with a First in Fine Art from Oxford University, where she secured funding & support to create a film about dyslexia, which was exhibited at international conferences and made its way to the New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission. Her love of starting with a blank page in a studio transitioned into a love of the zero-to-one stage of startups, leading her to join PreWarp, a fashion-tech startup. She was also part of the founding team of open- ended design, curating art & tech conversations, launching
FLORENCIA METIDIERI EVENT PRODUCER BASED : BUENOS AIRES
CAREN HANSSMANN DIRECTOR OF STUDENT AMBASSADORS BASED : MADRID Born in Koblenz, Germany, in the last ten years Caren has lived in six countries.
MARIE ROBERTS DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL EVENTS PRODUCTION / HOTEL CONTRACTING BASED : BUENOS AIRES Born in Argentina, Marie has a strong sense of adventure and curiosity, which she gets from her father. A soldier in World War II, he was stationed in India for three years, and his tales have long inspired Marie to make memories of her own abroad. In one sense, Baret is taking her on those adventures, and in another, she is taking Baret: as part of Baret’s advance location scouting team and an absolutely essential part of its production team, Baret would not be able to get off the ground without her. Marie’s career is a story of a firebrand entrepreneurial
Florencia grew up in a family of Spanish and Italian descent, and in her own words, it was a very diverse family. When she was 16, she went to London for a month to improve her English and meet people from other nationalities. This formational experience gave her the resolve to make a life of these sorts of experiences, and now she has friends from all over the world! Florencia has worked in marketing and event production ever since she was 20 years old, and has been organizing events across America ever since. She is a font of curiosity: meeting people from different countries, learning about their customs and cultures, is a source of enormous enrichment. Joining Baret was an easy decision: where else could she get such an opportunity to see the world? And be aware when traveling with Florencia: a lover of Broadway, she is especially
As an undergraduate, she earned a degree in
Business Administration and Management at WHU – Otto Beishem School of Management, traveling to China, England, and Spain through internships and study abroad opportunities to see international collaborations f irst-hand. She moved on to Durham University in London, where she obtained an MSc in International Business and French. Throughout her education, she retained her sense that leadership was vital to any business. While studying, she was recruited by Google to join their marketing solutions team in Dublin. While there, she also became an #IAmRemarkable facilitator to encourage underrepresented minorities to speak up about their
new recipes, particularly Mediterranean dishes.
Education: Durham University (MSc), WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (BSc) Languages: German, English Birthplace: Koblenz, Germany Lived In: Germany, UK, Spain, France Special Book: When Women Lead, Julia Boorstin
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spirit: beginning as an executive assistant, she
transitioned to selling spare parts for heavy machinery and then to teaching English for over a decade. She came into event organizing rather unexpectedly: organizing
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