A composition of experiences, built around a shared conviction.
Founders, advisors and operators with backgrounds in international finance, education, entrepreneurship and legal counsel — and a working hypothesis about what comes next for learning.
Built so that the combination is the contribution.
The Novi founding team did not converge by accident. It was assembled around the recognition that a partnership-driven education company — one whose value lies in the institutions it brings into the classroom rather than in the content it produces — requires a specific combination of competences that very few companies have at founding stage.
Four backgrounds, taken together, define how Novi operates. The discipline of international finance shapes how the company evaluates strategic decisions and engages with capital partners. The experience of educational programme design shapes how partner authority is translated into experiences that schools can adopt. The perspective of technology entrepreneurship shapes how Novi thinks about scale across the world’s largest markets. The discipline of law and governance shapes the contractual architecture through which every partnership rests on solid ground.
Around the founding team sits a second layer – advisors whose contribution is less operational than orientational. Their role is to remind the company, in every conversation, of the longer time horizon against which the work will eventually be judged: the discipline of credibility compounding through restraint, rather than through expansion.
And a third layer – the operations through which intentions become real engagements in real schools, in real countries, on real timelines. The work that turns a programme from a hypothesis into something a student remembers.
Six profiles, four levels of contribution.
Each member of the team is presented below with a brief synopsis of what they bring to Novi. Detailed profiles, points of view and contact channels are available on the dedicated member pages.
The founding co-CEOs.
Strategic direction and institutional capital — three decades at the apex of global finance, formerly Executive Board of Credit Suisse Group AG.
Programme design and institutional partnerships — building the educational vehicles around partners of global standing.
The founding team.
Technology entrepreneurship and global market development, with particular focus on the long-term thinking through which Novi programmes scale into the largest education systems in the world.
The longer view.
A long-term perspective on philanthropic capital and the role of education in shaping the institutions that will define the next century.
Law, governance and contractual architecture. Oversees the partnership agreements and rights structures that constitute the architecture of every Novi programme.
Programme delivery.
Manages institutional relationships and programme distribution across Novi’s active markets, with primary focus on European school networks and ministry-level partnerships.
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A team anchored across five cities.
The geographic distribution of the team mirrors the markets in which Novi operates — and is part of what allows the company to engage credibly with institutions across European, Asian and emerging contexts.