A Note from the Founder
Yogiraj Graham, Founder & CEO
Yogiraj Graham
Founder & CEO
Where This Began
I've sat across from 15-year-old students who could outthink anyone in the room at Oxford, and I've watched them walk away from opportunities because of the cost of a plane ticket. That's a problem I couldn't stop thinking about.
A scholarship is powerful, but only when it lands in the right hands at the right moment. So we don't just write checks. We discover students with unusually high potential, identify the talents that most distinguish them, and choose the program that will best prepare them for success at university and beyond. We match them with the right partner program, secure their place, and remove the financial barrier.
The money matters. Finding the right student and the right match matter more.
The students I've met over the years didn't need to be discovered. They needed someone to bet on them. I kept asking myself why no one was. Eventually I stopped asking and started the Francis Walter Graham Scholars Foundation.
That's it. That's the whole reason.
In Education
Former CEO of the John Locke Institute, Oxford.
Where the gap between brilliant students and life-changing programs became impossible to ignore.
As former CEO of the Oxford-based John Locke Institute, Yogiraj Graham is highly experienced in the global landscape of elite pre-university education and the unmet need for financial support among high-potential students. Through his work with exceptional students worldwide, he developed a clear understanding of how access to the most rigorous and transformative programs is too often limited not by ability, but by financial circumstance and geography.
In Industry
A decade in Silicon Valley.
Building global brand and creative organizations at Intel, Autodesk, and Brex.
Prior to his work in education, Yogiraj spent more than a decade in Silicon Valley building and leading large global brand and creative organizations at Intel, Autodesk, and Brex. He has lived and worked across the United States, South America, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Australia, bringing a genuinely international perspective to his work.
Earlier in his career, he worked in storytelling, television journalism, and leading advertising agencies, developing a consistent focus on communicating complex ideas with clarity and impact. His work has been featured and honored by The New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, Cannes Lions, Ad Age 40 Under 40, and the Adweek Creative 100.
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Why this Foundation exists.
An account, in the founder's words, of what these programs actually do for young people, and why so few of them ever get the chance.