Vera Barnwell  is a former management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group with expertise in organizational strategy, strategic planning, due diligence, and change management. At Zeta, Ms. Barnwell leads the network’s operational excellence strategy, tackling high-impact problems by creating solutions that scale across Zeta’s growing network of  schools and facilities. She earned her MBA from The Wharton School of Business and an M.S.Ed. in Education Entrepreneurship from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.