Ana is the Training Manager at Youth Business Spain. She's responsible for setting up a road map for a standard training methodology, as well as designing and launching the brand-new soft skills program Compe10ciasLED.

Ana is the founder and director of AV Asesores, a consulting practice founded in 1996 and dedicated to assist organizations to enable them to foster self-employment and innovative social strategies.

She works with companies to help them innovate their business model, services, products, market access, communication, etc. She also coordinates the design of regional sustainable tourism plans.

She has developed her own methodology to help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into a business. The method is called the 'Test del Algodon' and can be implemented following a free App and a book.

Ana holds a Law degree, an European Community Master, an Electronic Business Administration Master and a Leadership Degree.

Amarbayasgalan Khatanbaatar is a Program Officer at Youth Business Mongolia, and is responsible for designing, building, and implementing YBM's initiatives to support young business owners on Mongolia.

He previously worked for a year as a Compliance Officer and Simultaneous Translator at Tenger Insurance LLC, and successfully executed projects related to businesses and finance. He has completed various international development fieldworks in cooperation with KOICA and JICA, in the Philippines, Kenya and Tanzania. Besides his Bachelor's degree in International Studies from the Chonbuk National University, South Korea, he completed his exchange studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and ACU of Sydney. Currently he is seeking his MBA, in the evening class, at the University of Economics and Finance of Mongolia.

Amanda Scott is co-founder of Personal Boardroom and is the lead facilitator of its work. She co-authored Who is in your Personal Boardroom? in 2014 and is a regular speaker on networks. Her clients include business schools, professional networks, financial services companies, and multi-national retailers.

Her career spans advertising, being an agent for actors and a decade as an executive coach before discovering the power of networks and co-founding “Personal Boardroom” with Zella King. Amanda and Zella ask who is in your Personal Boardroom as this takes people right to the important question: At the heart of their network, who is really helping them succeed?

Drawing on their own insights as well as academic research on the networks of high performers, they have created a practical framework to help people identify gaps in their network, make plans to fill those gaps, and have purposeful conversations with people who can help them.

Bob Dorf is one of the top Lean Innovation and Customer Development experts in the world. Together with Steve Blank, Bob published The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company, outlining every step of the lean customer development process.

In addition to teaching Lean Startup methods at Columbia University Business School, Bob has travelled to teach entrepreneurs in 51 countries and 20 US states over the last decade. He is very proud of his four years of YBI member coaching and training programmes and looks forward to meeting his “YBI family” online in November.

Charles is an acceleration officer at Somo Africa, and is a skilled computer scientist, and software developer. He is also founder of BDIGISMAT, a software company based in Kibera, which focuses on apps and software for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

Chad Littlefield is the co-founder and Chief Experience Officer of We and Me, Inc. —an organization whose mission is to create conversations that matter. Leaders call Chad when they want to amplify connection, belonging, and trust in their organization. Forbes calls Chad a “global expert on asking questions that build trust and connection in teams.” He is a TEDx speaker, author of the Pocket Guide to Facilitating Human Connections, and creator of We! Connect Cards™, which are now being used to create conversations that matter on campuses and companies in over 80 countries around the world.

Most recently, Chad and his partner Will Wise launched their new book, Ask Powerful Questions: Create Conversations that Matter, now a #1 Amazon Bestseller.

Chad has led workshops, trainings, retreats, and interactive keynotes at JetBlue, Starbucks, Conscious Capitalism International, Johnson & Johnson, Penn State, Notre Dame, George Mason University, Typeform, Goodwill, and dozens of conferences.

Mr. Charles Ocici is the founding Executive Director at Enterprise Uganda, Uganda's premier institution supporting Micro Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs). He is a senior business consultant and mentor.

Charles has built a core team of multi-skilled professionals that offer diverse business development services. He holds a Master of Business Administration at the University of Stirling, UK among other academic achievements.

Charles has 32 years of corporate governance, banking, project investment finance, strategy development, business enterprise development and general business advisory in Uganda. He sits on several boards in the banking, education and NGO sectors in Uganda and is a former guest lecturer at Master of Business Administration Programme at Makerere University Business School.

Dee works at Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP) – Accenture's social impact practice. With core consulting expertise spanning business strategy, organisation design and talent management, Dee has been working in a range of development sector actors for over 10 years designing new organisational growth strategies and exploring opportunities for innovation in Livelihoods programmes.

Hilal works as an Entrepreneurship Programme Director for Habitat Association; an NGO has worked in sustainable development since 1997. Hilal previously worked for Vodafone Turkey Foundation, BinYaprak and AFS, ITU Science park and METU Science park focussing on entrepreneurship, women’s empowerment, children, people with disabilities, and technology-based entrepreneurship. She is also interested in social entrepreneurship and has volunteered for IEEE and Social Investment Platform. For the last two years, she is the Vice Chairman of JCI Kadikoy. She studied physics at Middle East Technical University.

John has been involved with mentoring at YBI for nearly 20 years, long before it was the YBI we all know. He helped develop the YBI mentoring toolkit (2008) and since 2010, John has been actively supporting mentoring managers to build their mentoring programmes within all continents where YBI operates. More recently, John has been a key contributor to YBI’s vitally important, Covid inspired, SOS Mentoring Webinar programme. John is passionate about the value of mentoring and coaching in helping people achieve their goals and was awarded his MA for Mentoring and Coaching practice in 2006.

Lotte van Dijk is one of the Product Managers of the BeYourOwnBoss Educational Program at Qredits Microfinance in The Netherlands. After studying in South Korea and working as an intern at bol.com, one of the biggest E-Commerce companies in The Netherlands and Belgium, she finished her International Business and Languages studies.

Last year she started working as a graduate intern at Qredits and never left the Qredits-family. From day one, she has been involved in the Innovation Challenge and has focused on introducing the BeYourOwnBoss Educational Program in the international market.

Mark Curtis is Global Head of Innovation and Thought Leadership for Accenture Interactive. Previously he was Co-founder and Chief Client Officer at Fjord, part of Accenture Interactive. He is a serial entrepreneur and innovator who has worked in media, digital, mobile and design for over 30 years. Fjord was acquired by Accenture in May 2013. He leads the creation of Fjord’s famous annual report – Fjord Trends and is a thought leader around the intersection of human and technology. Mark is a frequent speaker at conferences and commentator in the media. He has published a book, "Distraction - Being Human in the Digital Age".

Prior to Fjord, which he co-founded in 2001, he established Curtis Hoy, which pioneered a new market sector of radio sales promotion in 1989 as the commercial UK radio industry flourished under deregulation. In 1994 he and a business partner set up CHBi to explore the marketing potential of the then emerging interactive and "new" media. In 1998 he sold CHBi to Razorfish. Mark's role evolved to EVP Products and Service in which he ran a change management programme for all 2,000 employees which restructured and radically simplified Razorfish's approach to clients and projects.

Between 2005 and 2011 Mark stepped out of Fjord to run Flirtomatic, a mobile dating start-up incubated by Fjord. As CEO he raised over $10m and pioneered the mobile dating industry, in particular bringing the freemium revenue model to mobile for the first time.

Reetu is a freelance consultant, coach, facilitator and programme designer working with start-up programmes and impact entrepreneurs. She's also studying for a PhD researching how the intersectionality of gender and ethnicity influences entrepreneurial network development. Reetu's been on the founding team of two social enterprises, and is currently a Trustee of Rosa UK, a grant fund promoting gender equality.

Rose Namutebi Mulumba is a social Worker and an Entrepreneur. Rose holds a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from Makerere University Uganda and currently pursuing a Masters degree in Local Governance and Human Rights from Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi. She has a wealth of experience in youth entrepreneurship, business Development, gender and women rights, food and nutrition security with extensive skills in lobbying and advocacy for economic and social empowerment of women and youth.

Rose is Project Coordinator of High Flyers, a project that supports 1,000 young entrepreneurs in Uganda implemented by ICCO Cooperation. She currently supports the mentoring program with ICCO Uganda as the Mentoring Manager. Before joining ICCO, Rose worked with Volunteer Efforts for Development Concern (VEDCO) as Gender and Capacity Building Coordinator, Living Earth Uganda (LEU) as a Project Manager, Green Efforts Foundation (GEF) as a Youth Coordinator, None Governmental Organisation Coordinating Council Zambia (NGOCC) as a Communication and Advocacy Officer and National Association for Women Organization (NAWOU) as a Programs Manager.

Rose is married, with three beautiful children, she is passionate about working with vulnerable groups of people (women and youth) with a desire to create a positive chance in their lives. She loves associating with entrepreneurs, enjoys travelling to new places and devotes her time to participate in church missions at a village level.

Shahariar Sadat is a member of the Governing Board and Project Coordination Committee at Bangladesh Youth Enterprise Advice & Helpcentre (B’Yeah) from February, 2017. He is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and an accredited mediator and master trainer on mediation. He is currently the Head of Programme of Human Rights and Legal Aid Services (HRLS) at BRAC.

He has been invited to join the Global Mediation Panel of the United Nations. He has worked as country mediator of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman of the World Bank Group and a mediator for the Independent Redress mechanism of Green Climate Fund.

He is associated with Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre (BIAC) as a panel mediator and master trainer. Shahariar was a partner and course coordinator of London College of Legal Studies (South), an institution which provides teaching support for qualifying law degree under English law. He had been an adjunct faculty of University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh and University of Dhaka. He was the Academic Coordinator and Research Manager of South Asian Institute of Advanced Legal and Human Rights Studies (SAILS) and played the key role of Academic Coordinator at the Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ), BRAC University.

Mr Sadat is an ex-cadet of Barishal Cadet College. Completed SSC and HSC with distinction. He has primarily graduated in Economics from University of Dhaka and achieved Master’s in Social Science in Economics. Afterwards he graduated in Law from University of London and completed Master’s in Industrial and Employment Relations from ITCILO under University of Turin with distinction.