Our Leaders, Board Members and Advisors

Our Board Members and Observers

Apoorv Agrawal

Independent Director and Board Member, Crimson Education
Former Vice President, Softbank Investment Advisers

Fangzhou Jiang

Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Crimson Education CEO China

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BS/BComm, Australian National University; MS, Stanford University; Master of Global Affairs, Schwarzman Scholar, Tsinghua University; MPA, Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Fellow; MBA, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Fangzhou is a co-founder of Crimson Education and serves as the group’s Chief Product Officer as well as the CEO of China Operations. Fangzhou also sits on Crimson’s board of directors. Born in Shaanxi, China, Fangzhou moved to New Zealand at the age of 16 and attended Rangitoto College. In his final year of high school, he became the first and only international student in the history of New Zealand to be named a Premier Scholar, the highest academic honor in the country from Prime Minister Sir John Key. In addition to the NZ high school curriculum, he self-studied seven AP subjects and received perfect scores on all of them. He was awarded the AP Scholar of Distinction by the College Board. Fangzhou then went on to attend the Australian National University as the International University Scholar, and graduated with a BSc in Computer Science and a BComm in Accounting. He then moved to the United States for his Masters and studied Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. Fangzhou’s educational journey continued when, in 2019, he was selected as a Schwarzman Scholar to pursue a Master of Global Affairs at Tsinghua University, before obtaining his Master of Public Administration at Harvard Kennedy School and his Master of Business Administration at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. In 2017, he was named New Zealand Student Entrepreneur of the Year and in 2021, he was recognized on China’s Hurun Under 30s list. In 2022, he was recognised in Forbes 30 Under 30. Fangzhou has served as an entrepreneurship coach and industry advisor at the MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship. Over the last eleven years at Crimson, Fangzhou has advised hundreds of students around the world to help them access their dream universities and careers. Fangzhou is passionate about sports. In 2019 alone, he raced in three Ironman 70.3 events in the United States and Australia, where he completed 1.9 km of open water swimming, 90 km of cycling and 21.1 km of running in a continuous session in each race. He is also a PADI-certified Advanced Open Water diver and enjoys scuba diving around the world in his spare time.

Jamie Beaton

Co-Founder and CEO, Crimson Education

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Janine Manning

Director and Board Member, Crimson Education

Jack McQuire

Director and Board Member, Crimson Education
Partner, Icehouse Ventures

Mark Vivian

Director and Board Member, Crimson Education
Partner, Movac

Martin Dalgleish

Director and Board Member, Crimson Education
Partner, HEAL Partners

Alexander Rosenthal

Board Observer, Crimson Education
Senior Principal, Verlinvest

Owen Wurzbacher

Board Observer, Crimson Education, Managing Director & Portfolio Manager, HighSage Ventures

Alex Robertson

Board Observer, Crimson Education
Executive Chairman, Tiger Management and Chairman, Robertson Foundation

Our Advisors

Ed Baker

Advisor, Crimson Education
Former Head of International Growth, Facebook and Former VP of Product & Growth, Uber

Alexander Rosenthal

Board Observer, Crimson Education
Senior Principal, Verlinvest

Penelope Barton

Advisor, Crimson Education
Chief Executive Officer, Crimson Global Academy

Apoorv Agrawal

Independent Director and Board Member, Crimson Education
Former Vice President, Softbank Investment Advisers

Larry Summers

Advisor, Crimson Education
Former US Secretary of the Treasury

Rt Hon Sir John Key, GNZM AC

Senior Advisor, Crimson Global Academy
Chairman, ANZ Bank (NZ) and Former Prime Minister of New Zealand

Chris Wang

Advisor, Crimson Education
Senior Investment Manager SoftBank China Capital

Karen Yung

Advisor, Crimson Education
Chief Collaboration Officer, Dulwich College International

Prof. Billy Osteen

Advisor, Crimson Education
Dir. University of Canterbury Community Engagement Hub & Associate Professor of Community Engagement

David Mansfield

Advisor, Crimson Global Academy
CEO and Dean of Buckingham International School of Education & Senior Advisor to Pao School

Dr. Tomohiro Hoshi

Senior Advisor, Crimson Global Academy
Head of School, Stanford Online High School

Dr. Jian Yang

Advisor, Crimson Education
Former Member of the New Zealand Parliament and International Relations Academic

Fraser White

Advisor, Crimson Education
Founder, Chairman and CEO Dulwich College International

Barbara Kendall CNZM MBE

5-Time Olympian in Windsurfing/Sailing Winner of Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals International Olympic Committee (1996-2016)

AJ Tills

Advisor, Crimson Education
Former Chief Marketing Officer, Crimson Global Academy

David Yoon

Advisor, Crimson Education
Executive Director at Alchemist Capital Partners, CEO and Co-Founder of Lucratum

Paul Kanarek

Advisor, Crimson Education
Founder, The Princeton Review, and Former CEO, Collegewise

Hon David Cunliffe QSO

Advisor, Crimson Education
Former New Zealand Government Minister

Our Investors

At Crimson we are fortunate to have investors who both appreciate the life-changing value of education and the need to progress global education practices. Our investors range from successful individuals to globally recognised companies who have added Crimson to their portfolios which include other world leading organisations such as Facebook, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Quora, Eventbrite, Stripe and more.