Cyrus Patel

Cyrus Patel brings considerable operations and strategy experience to his role as an advisor to Bennett Day School. He has experience in education, consumer products, healthcare, distribution and manufacturing and has built a reputation for leading committees and boards through growth. He previously served, as part of the Sterling Partners Accelerator program, as the Vice President of Strategy and Business Planning for the Meritas Family of Schools, a network of college prep schools serving over 11,000 students worldwide. In this role, he worked directly with the CEO of Meritas to drive operational and strategic change throughout the organization and created a strategy and business planning department that managed all strategic planning, pricing, budgeting, forecasting, and capital planning functions.

Prior to Meritas, he worked for Marakon Associates, a premier management consulting firm. He is currently the CEO of Scholar Partners, a group purchasing organization that he founded to aggregate purchasing power for independent and charter schools. Cyrus earned a B.A. in Economics and Government from Cornell University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.