Our President and Trustees
Our President and Trustees
William Salomon OBE - YE President
William is the Senior Partner of Hansa Capital Partners and a Director of Hansa Investment Company Limited. William has extensive knowledge of all aspects of private client and strategic fund investment business.
William was responsible for developing Finsbury Asset Management and the Finsbury range of funds based on the concept of early recognition of key investment trends, such as life sciences and technology, and appointing specialist managers until taken over in 1995 by Rea Brothers Group, the family’s bank of which he eventually became Chairman. In 1999 Rea Brothers Group was taken over by Close Brothers Group when William was appointed Deputy Chairman of the investment division. William has served on the board of a number of investment and trading companies.
Our Trustees
Baroness Amanda Sater (Chair)
Amanda became Chair of the Board of Young Enterprise in November 2026.
Amanda brings significant Board experience and, through her work in the House of Lords, has consistently championed issues important for our sector, such as financial education for young people. She has been closely involved with the financial education community for many years and, until recently, was an officer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Financial Education for Young People. She has been a passionate advocate for raising the profile of financial education across Government.
As an entrepreneur herself, she also brings first-hand experience of the importance of enterprise and financial education in giving young people the skills, confidence and opportunities to succeed.
Andrew Baddeley
Andrew is Group CFO at S&W Group. He specialised in insurance company taxation at EY and PWC. He held a number of roles in the insurance sector, later as CFO for a number of groups and then at TPICAP, the interdealer broker.
Andrew joined Tilney in 2018 where, as CFO, he coordinated the successful acquisition of Smith & Williamson in 2020 to create Evelyn Partners. He then led the carve-out of S&W, the Top 10 accountancy business.
Andrew has served as a school governor and has been an independent member of our Risk & Audit Committee since 2018, joining the Board in May 2022.
Mina Karshala
Mina joined the Young Enterprise Board in July 2021. She is a 2013 Young Enterprise alumna, and took part in the Start Up Programme whilst studying for her Leadership and Management degree.
Her Young Enterprise experience and learning about what the organisation stands for set the foundations of her career path. Mina currently works at an education charity and runs her own business during evenings and weekends. Having experienced first-hand the difference organisations like Young Enterprise make to young people, Mina is passionate about being part of a mission to ensure no child’s potential is limited by their socio-economic background.
Andrew Bowley
Andrew is an experienced investment banking executive, Non-Executive Director and governance specialist with nearly four decades in financial services, including senior leadership roles. Alongside a career spanning Wells Fargo, Nomura, Lehman Brothers, Dresdner Kleinwort, JP Morgan and KPMG, he has extensive board, risk committee, advisory and disciplinary committee experience across regulated financial organisations, including work with the Financial Markets Standards Board, Global Financial Markets Association and London Stock Exchange. In recent years, Andrew has focused on sustainability, leading sustainable finance strategy and initiatives at Wells Fargo and Nomura. He is passionate about helping young people build confidence, skills and opportunity, and has supported Young Enterprise through corporate philanthropy, student programme judging and engagement with our mission to inspire the next generation.
John Sills
John is Managing Partner at the customer-led growth company, The Foundation.
25 years ago, he started his career on a market stall. Since then, he has worked with companies to make things better for customers. He’s been in front-line teams delivering the experience, innovation teams designing propositions, and HQ teams creating strategy. He’s been a bank manager during the financial crisis, launched an app to millions of people, and regularly asks strangers personal questions!
He spent twelve years at HSBC, latterly as Head of Customer Innovation. His book – The Human Experience –  was nominated as 'Leadership Book of the Year’, and his writing has appeared in The Guardian and The FT.
Graham Farhall
Graham has worked for Delta since 2008 and is their Regional Director – Finance EMEA, responsible for providing financial expertise, including ensuring accounting control and compliance across 32 countries.
Prior to joining Delta, Graham spent ten years in various finance roles with British Airways, including time spent working in the USA. He started his career with Balfour Beatty and holds a BSc (Hons) in Business Operation and Control.
Graham is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and joined the Board of Young Enterprise in February 2019, having served as an independent member of the Risk and Audit Committee since March 2018.
Carl Reader
Carl joined the Young Enterprise Board in March 2021. Carl is an entrepreneur and small business champion with a background in accountancy.
Carl serves as Chair of the Practitioner Panel at ACCA and is widely recognised as a thought leader in the accounting profession, speaking globally to accountancy audiences about a range of topics. He features regularly in the national press and on stage and regularly provides content through his social media channels.
Carl is chairman of business advisory firm d&t and author of Boss It, The Startup Coach and The Franchising Handbook. Carl also hosts a podcast.
Sabreen Ahsan
Sabreen joined the Young Enterprise Board in July 2021. She has combined her love of entrepreneurship and her interest in supporting young people throughout her career, having worked in several education charities before founding PIYA Media, a digital marketing agency for BAME Creatives and Entrepreneurs.
Since graduating from Worcester College, Oxford with a degree in Arabic & Islamic Studies, Sabreen has been a frequent speaker at careers events and conferences for school and university students, and is excited to join Young Enterprise to support young people in realising their potential.
Andy Campbell
Andy is Founder and CEO of Space Network, the world’s fastest-growing, most commercially impactful space-sector ecosystem. He has significant expertise in leading, developing, and motivating multidisciplinary national teams, with the ability to positively influence and shape strategic, commercial and operational delivery. Since 2014, he has been involved in STEM education, demonstrating his commitment to inspiring future generations of scientists and engineers.
He has founded two charitable organisations supporting young people, early-stage entrepreneurs, and the empowerment of community-driven regeneration. In 2019 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate by the University of the West of Scotland and, in 2024, was appointed as Chair at Young Enterprise Scotland.
Claire Thwaites
Claire is a senior leader in government affairs, public policy, and social impact, with international experience across London, Brussels, and Washington, D.C. Currently Vice President of Global Government Affairs at Reckitt, she has also held leadership roles at The LEGO Group, Apple, Vodafone, and the United Nations.
Claire has a strong record of driving policy and regulatory change, building trusted relationships with global policymakers, and leading CEO engagement with political leaders. Passionate about purpose-led leadership, she has launched initiatives that strengthen corporate reputation, create social impact, and empower diverse, high-performing teams.
Paddy O’Brien
Paddy is a Deputy Headteacher in Hackney, East London, with extensive experience in curriculum strategy, school improvement and organisational leadership across large inner-city secondary schools. In his roles leading curriculum and standards he has led sustained improvements in academic outcomes, financial efficiency and strategic planning. He currently leads on student behaviour and attitudes, personal development and safeguarding.
With a background spanning the UK and international education, as well as his own personal leadership development with the Ambition Institute and University of Warwick, Paddy brings strong governance insight and a clear focus on impact and managing organisational change. He is committed to improving social mobility and ensuring young people are equipped with the skills and attributes needed to succeed in education, employment and enterprise.
Louise Youngman
Louise is a senior people leader and a Fellow of the CIPD. She has built a career leading people, culture and organisational transformation across retail, housing and the charity sector, including senior roles at RNIB and the National Deaf Children’s Society. Most recently as Executive Director of People and Change at Scope where she led people strategy and drove operating-model, cultural and digital change, leadership development, inclusion and organisational design. Louise brings a strong governance perspective from working with boards and her experience as a school governor. She is passionate about helping young people build confidence, skills and opportunity.
Emma Bailey
Emma is Global Director of Talent and Culture at Costa Coffee. Prior to this she spent several years at McDonald’s in senior People & Culture roles, working with one of the largest youth workforces in the world. This is where her passion for supporting young people to unleash their potential developed.
Throughout her career she has worked with community groups to reduce barriers to employment, delivered programmes to build confidence, wellbeing and employability skills and pathways to employment, and created campaigns to change perceptions of young people.
Outside of work, Emma has delivered career-readiness support programmes and continues to provide coaching for early careers.
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