Meet Andrew Humphries - 2011 YCE Awards

Andrew Humphries left full-time education at 16, and spent 20 years in corporate sales mainly in large IT organisations, finding himself in his mid-thirties as Sales & Marketing Director of a multinational computer manufacturer. he left the corporate world behind and over the next 6 years co-founded 2 successful technology businesses, growing them both in Europe and the US, exiting his last company via a trade sale to its largest client. An inspirational influencer and motivator, an NLP Master Practitioner, and a fascinated student of the complex dynamics of motivation and happiness, Andrew has since been coaching executives, individuals and teams in business to achieve and exceed their highest objectives; his latest project is The Attitude Academy, a social enterprise that provides attitude and motivational coaching to 13- 18 year olds in schools. Alongside this work, as a Dealmaker for the UK Government Global Entrepreneur Programme, he uses his entrepreneurial background and experience to encourage Foreign Direct Investment in the UK and to help entrepreneurs and their businesses go global from a UK HQ. Recently he has become involved with the Tech City Investment Organisation, an initiative announced by the Prime Minister at the end of last year which is fast becoming one of the fastest growing tech clusters in Europe. www.techcityuk.com

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