Advisory Board
Foundation, providing coding bootcamps to 150+ under- resourced students in Kenya and Ethiopia. A few thousand hours short of the blues scales she desires, she’s working on her jazz piano. Education: University of Oxford, MS; UCLA, BA Languages: Mandarin, English Birthplace: Hainan Island, China Lived in: United States, United Kingdom, China Special Book: Pedagogy of the Oppressed , Paulo Freire
Baret: a focus on the financing of cultural institutions from museums to schools. Over the past 15 months, BAU has provided instrumental advice on our global corporate structure, our financing strategy and broadly on our capital raising efforts. They also introduced us to both our CEO and our President. As an Advisory Board Member, Fernando will continue to do what he has already done for Baret: guide us in a wide range of matters from capital to program. Fernando says: “I firmly believe having more than 100 best friends is possible.” Baret’s team looks forward to being 20 or more of those. Education: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, BA Languages: German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina Lived in: United States, Argentina, UK, Germany, Hong Kong, Spain Special Book: Demian , Herman Hesse
co-found both Antarctica Asset Management and then BAU Advisors. Francisco serves on the Board of Advisors of Baret Scholars and, since our inception, has guided the organization in multiple ways, including being one of its earliest investors. His parents are founders of a significant Buenos Aires school and his father was the Secretary of Education in Argentina: Francisco brings a wealth of educational experience to Baret. Education: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, BSBA; University of Chicago, MBA Languages: French, Italian, Spanish, English Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina Lived in: Italy, France, United Kingdom, United States, Argentina Special Book: Into Thin Air , Jon Krakauer
Oppenheimer and Co. in Brazil as Managing Director. A few years later he founded Rafter Investimentos, a boutique investment management firm. He loved the bird’s eye view that one gets while managing money. He is currently in the process of fully divesting from Rafter and joining the Advisory Board of a preeminent Multi Family Office in Brazil. Father to three boys and married for forty years, he makes time for his daily meditation and sports routine and also to tour the world on his motorcycle, and now, to advise and help lead Baret into the future. We’re thrilled to have his expertise and enthusiasm to guide us. Education: FGV – Fundação Getulio Vargas, Post Graduate; FAAP – Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, BS
NAIJING GUO, DIRECTOR OF STUDENT
FERNANDO MONCHO LOBO, BOARD OF ADVISORS BASED : NEW YORK CITY AND BUENOS AIRES Salta, Argentina to Bremen, Germany is 6,958 miles. To a 16-year-old, it's even further. During high school, Fernando thought a year outside his home country would broaden his education, and off he went from Bachillerato Humanista Moderno to Ökumenisches Gymnasium zu Bremen. He looks back on this year as foundational to his multi- cultural life. His 30-year financial career took him further afield to Hong Kong, New York, London, and Madrid. JP Morgan was the first decade and foundation of his professional path in finance before launching his own asset management company focused on hedge funds, Antarctica Asset Management in 2001, and after that BAU Advisors with a broader investment mandate in 2015. BAU, with partners in New York, Buenos Aires, and Miami, operates across a number of sectors, but one appealed particularly to
FRANCISCO SALONIA-RUZO, BOARD OF ADVISORS BASED : MIAMI Francisco spent his youth almost entirely on the 35th parallel, albeit in two different hemispheres. A childhood in Buenos Aires (35.9 degrees South) and his college days in Chapel Hill (34.6 degrees North) were interrupted only by a year-long exchange program as a high school senior in Columbia, Missouri. “It was tough: different language, different country, different culture, and my first time away from home,” he recalls. “But after that experience, my desire to get to know the rest of the world increased significantly: After my first year in college, I backpacked around the globe.” He and an Argentinian friend (see Fernando Moncho Lobo, another Baret Advisory Board member) both applied for scholarships to UNC—and they both won. Little did they know then that their careers would intersect at JP Morgan and that they would later
EDUARDO PIRES BOARD OF ADVISORS BASED : SAO PAULO
ENGAGEMENT BASED : LONDON
If you’ve ever met Eduardo, you know his energy is infectious. A lover of life, Eduardo appreciates that nothing lasts forever. He started working at 17 in the world of finance, having been selected to be a part of a prestigious young cohort of JPMorgan professionals, traveling the world and becoming a global citizen in the process. The experience changed his life: he knew that the global life was the life for him. He sees in Baret the same advantages: the opportunity to make lifelong friendships, experience the world in all its vast diversity, while honing one’s critical thinking and values along the way. Opportunities like the one Baret provides are not to be missed. He sees value in meeting and connecting with people unlike him, and is excited to help Baret grow a network of alumni that will reach to all four corners of the world. After 13 years at JP Morgan, together with a partner he opened the Rep Office of
Surrounded by the beauty of the South China Sea, Hainan Island was Naijing’s first home. Alongside a rigorous high school education, Naijing also taught herself the US high school curriculum in countless libraries and cafes in her hometown, designing her course of study along with her parents. It worked—and her self-study established a thread of educational endeavors throughout her life, including her recent Master's degree in Education from the University of Oxford. Naijing brings to Baret a deep belief in the power of educational design informed by data- based learning methods. At the age of 15, she founded her first school, a summer camp for primary schoolers in the fishing village where her mother grew up. During Cambridge and then at Deloitte, she was co-founder and Chair of the Trustees of DirectEd Development
naijing.guo@baretscholars.org
Languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
Birthplace: São Paulo, Brazil Lived In: Brazil, United States, Spain Special Book: The Brevity of Life , Seneca
francisco@bauadvisors.com
epires@rafterinvestimentos. com.br
fernando@bauadvisors.com
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