Jonathan Starr

From 2008 to the present, Jonathan has been Managing Director, Headmaster, and Founder, of the Abaarso School of Science and Technology, a non-profit educational organization in Somaliland. In just a short time Abaarso School has become the premier school in the region while operating at a cost structure that is a small fraction of similar schools in Africa and the Middle East. From 2004 – 2008, Mr. Starr founded and led Flagg Street Capital, a private investment firm that managed $170 million of investor assets. Prior to Flagg Street, Jonathan worked as an Analyst at SAB Capital and at Blavin and Company, both well-respected private investment firms. Mr. Starr’s career started as a Research Associate within the Taxable Bond Division at Fidelity Investments. In addition to his full-time professional responsibilities, Jonathan sat on the Board of Directors of Pomeroy IT Solutions, a publicly traded US information technology company generating approximately $500 million of annual sales. Jonathan’s board responsibilities included acting as a member of the Audit Committee, the Advisory Committee, and the Special Committee (strategic alternatives) of Pomeroy. Mr. Starr graduated from Emory University, where he received a B.A. Summa Cum Laude in Economics and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.