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Lived it Lecture: Bill Young
MaRS Centre Auditorium 101 College Street Toronto
Hear from a leader in the forefront of social finance in Canada. Bill speaks about SCP’s experiences over the last decade of trying to grow and develop the field of social enterprise in Canada. He covers SCP’s successes, its failures, the lessons learned along the way and what it hopes to accomplish over the next ten years.
This is part of a series of “Lived It” lectures in the program, sessions that offer a great opportunity to hear firsthand and ask questions about the experience of starting up an innovative company – from people who have seen it and done it.
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About the speaker
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.
