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Batten Scholars 2024-25

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Batten Scholars

Batten Scholars

The Batten Scholars program provides scholarships for exceptional students admitted to Darden's Full-Time, Part-Time, and Executive MBA programs. This highly competitive program is sponsored and administered by the Batten Institute, a Darden center of excellence focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology. In addition to substantial scholarship awards, the cohort-based program has multiple components to help Scholars pursue their purpose and goals, such as enrichment opportunities, curated conversations, special events, and connections to fellow Scholars, alumni, staff, and faculty. Additional information on the application process is available on the scholarship webpages for Darden's Full-Time, Part-Time and Executive MBA formats.

Class of 2026

Mehak Bhatia

Batten Innovation Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Tianyi Cheng

Batten Innovation Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Vasil Gubadze

Batten Entrepreneurial Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Surbhi Guha

Batten Entrepreneurial Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Aileen Helsel

Batten Innovation Scholar, Executive MBA

Faizan Khwaja

Batten Innovation Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Collen Masunda

Batten Scholar, Part-Time MBA

John Murphy

Batten Technology Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Oladimeji Ojo

Batten Entrepreneurial Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Mauricio Salinas

Batten Entrepreneurial Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Harry Singh

Batten Technology Scholar, Part-Time MBA

Ana Soule Swagler

Batten Innovation Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Hongyu Charlie Wang

Batten Entrepreneurial Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Class of 2025

Matt Au

Batten Innovation Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Toshe Ayo-Ariyo

Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Saahil Dama

Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Victoria Ejimofor

Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Danny Holloway

Batten Scholar, Executive MBA

Ugochukwu Ibecheozor

Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Jade Kimpson

Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar, Full-Time MBA

James Linville

Batten Entrepreneurial Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Chantal Mekhail

Batten Scholar, Executive MBA

Hannah Mendoza

Lert Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Stewart Neifert

Batten Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Ashutosh Pandey

Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Sadman Safat

Batten Technology Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Chris Sanders

Batten Scholar, Executive MBA

Isaac Yassky

Batten Technology Scholar, Full-Time MBA

Batten Scholars - Class of 2024

Agam Singh-Bajaj
Batten Technology Scholar

Beza Bisrat
Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar

Curie Chang
Batten Technology Scholar

Amelia DeSorrento
Batten Scholar

Angus Jackson
Batten Scholar

Charlie Krouse
Batten Innovation Scholar

Shuangyi (Hao) Li
Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar

Daniel Maclean Vernic
Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar

Chelsea (Thao) Nguyen
Batten Innovation Scholar

Victoria Ondieki
Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar

Siddharth Parekh
Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar

Batten Scholars - Class of 2023

Dan Bierenbaum
Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar

Nate Carlson
Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar

Jason Hsu (Xu)
Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar

Nikhil Jain
Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar

Andrea Key
Batten Technology Scholar

Lorenzo Mosig
Batten Innovation Scholar

Lewis Salas
Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar

Kelcie Schofield
Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar

Issa Sylla
Batten Innovation Scholar

Christian von Hassell
Batten Innovation Scholar

Batten Scholars - Class of 2022

Yang (Jeff) Gao
Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar

Adam Gordon
Batten Technology Scholar

Anshini Jhaveri
Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar

Stanley Lu
Batten Technology Scholar

Beau Muniz
Batten Innovation Scholar

Brett Pearce
Batten Innovation Scholar

Drew Pearson
Batten Technology Scholar

Cecilia Rios Murrieta
Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar

Edmi Vazquez Ramos
Batten Innovation Scholar

Joshua Rombach
Entrepreneurship Scholar

Sashreek (Sash) Shrestha
Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar

Takim Williams
Batten Innovation Scholar

Huan Zheng
Batten Entrepreneurship Scholar