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Bill Young is the President of Social Capital Partners (“SCP”) a company he founded in 2001. SCP is a social venture capital company whose primary goal is to prove that businesses with both a financial and a social purpose can succeed at both. It provides attractive financing to a variety of businesses that employ disadvantaged populations as part of their human resources strategy. SCP facilitates the recruitment of these individuals and ensures they have the appropriate skills to be successful employees.

Before founding SCP, Bill worked for approximately twenty years in the private sector primarily as CEO of Hamilton Computers, and Optel Communications Corp. He began his career as a Chartered Accountant and holds an Honours BA from the University of Toronto and an MBA from Harvard. Bill currently sits on the boards of Inner City Renovations, Vartana, Ecotrust Canada Capital, Renaissance and a number of Advisory Boards.