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Andrew Devenport
CEO, The Prince’s Youth Business International (YBI)
Andrew is CEO of The Prince’s Youth Business International (YBI), the leading global network helping young people start and grow their own businesses. YBI was established in 2000 and under the Presidency of HRH The Prince of Wales is helping over 7,000 young people start new businesses every year and rapidly growing towards its goal of helping start 100,000 new businesses a year by 2020.
Andrew leads the network team’s work to grow a stronger and more effective global network. He is an expert on youth entrepreneurship around the world and works closely with YBI members on issues such as resourcing, operations and governance. He focuses particularly on the strategic development of the global network and initiating and managing complex multi-stakeholder relationships across the world. Under Andrew’s leadership, over the past six years YBI has grown 300% and is now considered the world’s pre-eminent youth entrepreneurship network.
Prior to joining YBI, Andrew worked in investment banking for over 20 years, 17 years of which was with Goldman Sachs where he was a Managing Director. Andrew was based primarily in London, Tokyo, Los Angeles and Sydney and focused on the Debt Capital markets and has a particular interest in improving the access to capital for young entrepreneurs both from the public and private sectors.
Whilst at Goldman Sachs Andrew lead the establishment of an African Education Initiative and has served as chairman of the Loldia School Fund of Kenya since 2001. Andrew has an M.A. in Engineering Science from Oxford University.
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