Our mentors are entrepreneurs, business school graduates, and professionals who contribute their knowledge to support assigned YE,A teams.

Linda Amoah holds a BSc in Financial Management from Franklin University in the United States. She served in a number of positions within the mortgage and credit card divisions of JP Morgan Chase for several years. Her last position held was Senior Financial Analyst with Chase Credit Card’s Acquisitions Investment Decisioning Group. She relocated to Ghana in June 2008 and currently works with the German Investment & Development Corporation (DEG), a European Development Finance Institution. Linda volunteered in several initiatives targeted at empowering the youth while in the U.S. These include Upper Bound (a high school mentoring program in Coulmbus Ohio), Columbus Initiative (middle school tutoring program) and Girls' Inc. (a summer basketball/tutoring/mentoring program for girls) in Wilmington, Delaware). Linda views her role in YE,A as a contribution to assisting young individuals identify and unlock their potential in entrepreneurship, aimed at developing their own communities.

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Electrical Engineer at Multigroup Consultants in Accra. She has a dual bachelors degree in Math and Electrical Engineering from Spelman College and Columbia University. Over the years, she has played an active role in organisations that promote youth development. She is currently the president of the Tema branch of the Zonta Club.

My professional training is in medical physics but I’m fully occupied with this business of living. I’m at the stage in my life where I feel it’s okay to try many things, and fail at some, so I can move right along to winning some. In the day time I work with Publicis Ghana as a copywriter. Which means that I get paid to come up with ideas to persuade people. Sometimes I write ads for tv, radio and other media. It’s a lot of fun. At night, I write one of the most popular Ghana blogs: www.maameous.blogspot.com. In the past year, I’ve co-founded 2 businesses – Nkosoo Farms, a snail farm up in the mountains at Aburi, and AfroChic Limited, a clothing manufacturing business, both of which I’m very excited about. If I’m not free-lance writing for screen or tinkering with projects like www.nududu.com  an African recipe and restaurant listing website, you may find me walking the full breadth of Accra. The problem is that I have too much energy. I’m part of YE,A because of a selfish desire to right wrongs in communities like the one I grew up in. I grew up in what is largely a squatter community. People do not usually come out of there to become successful entrepreneurs or professionals. Most do not get an education beyond high school. And so even though some of the kids I grew up with were bright and hardworking, they were crippled by their inability to harness their talents. I believe in the power of guidance and role models and so I think that with the right guidance, such kids can solve the problems that affect their communities. It turns out that 3 out of the 18 YE,A finalists this year live at Ashale-Botwe…the same place I grew up. So first, YEA gives me the chance to directly act as a role model to these kids, and to make them see that people from such communities at Ashale-Botwe too can be whatever they want to be. Second, as the YEA projects will be based in these communities, it gives me a chance to be part of an effort that may directly solve problems there. Third, I just get a kick out of it

Rosy, an alumna of SOS-Hermann Gmeiner International College, graduated Cum Laude from Smith College, Massachusetts. She holds a BA in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics. She worked as an IT Analyst for JPMorgan Chase in New York before attending the Harvard Business School to pursue a Masters in Business Administration degree. Rosy is currently a strategy consultant focused on the financial services industry. She is an active member of Sponsors For Educational Opportunity (www.seo-ny.org) and is also the Board Chair and co-founder of Never Ending Opportunity (NEO), a non-profit organization focused on enhancing the human capital development of sub-Saharan Africa. Rosy has also worked in the entertainment industry in different capacities, both in New York and Los Angeles. She is an avid sports fan and frequently plays basketball, squash or rugby when time permits.

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Tallal is the Creative Director of iCreate Advertising, I believe in dreams and their ability to manifest through preparation and hard work. I support Y,EA because of it's mission to empower young Africa through business to achieve their dreams.