O Group SEBfounded by entrepreneur Chaim Zaheris a company of Brazilian origin which is now present in more than 20 countries.

The entrepreneur bets on franchises and in 2020 buys 70% of the group’s flagship global operation, the bilingual school maple bear. The network also includes its own schools, such as Escola Concept, which falls into the “ultra-premium” category.

The company has more than 6,000 teachers who actively participate in the lives of more than 310,000 students in more than 30 countries, preparing students for the challenges of the future.

It is the owner of the global network of the Canadian bilingual school maple bear only with Sphere and Luminova International Schoolform our franchise unit.

Chaim Zahershareholder of the educational companies Yduqs (YDUQ3) Participações and Cogna Educação (COGN3), is one of the oldest investors in private education in the country and has invested in recent years in basic education, mainly so-called “premium” schools », bilingual and with monthly fees.

Last year he admitted that Group SEB planned to list on the Nasdaq (US100) stock exchange in the United States, a unit that includes high-end private schools such as Maple Bear and Luminova, said comptroller and chief executive Chaim Zaher.

THE Seb control 70% of maple bear, which oversees a franchise network of 532 private schools in 30 countries. Despite the pandemic, Maple Bear has continued to grow and added 60 new schools to its franchise network over the past year.

Zaher estimates that the unit that will be spun off from SEB will have an Ebitda of around $50 million and prefers to be listed on Nasdaq at the highest multiples assigned by investors.

It also controls the network of Vanguard schools, such as Concept; Premium schools, such as Pueri Domus. Carolina Patrício, Pueri Bilígue Candanguinho and Sphere; and high performance schools, such as SEB Schools, AZ Schools, Colégio Einstein and Visão.

The Group also controls an editech, Conexia, which develops innovative educational solutions, with more than 7 proprietary methodologies, for its units and other schools.

The contractor Chaim Zaherof Grupo SEB – one of the largest in the private education sector in Brazil – has his daughter Thamila Zaher as the establishment’s executive director.

He feels that his successor is capable of taking over the business (when the time comes) and handling the day-to-day running of the business. Elea is one of his four daughters, who have followed their father’s reunion routines since the age of eight.

Thamila took her first management position at Grupo SEB at the age of 17, as general manager of one of the company’s schools.