Formed in 1989 with the intent of bringing “Top Down” selling to the IT industry. Since then the YA teams have helped companies deliver in excess of $3B in additional revenue. Our core team has over 100 years of Sales & Marketing experience operating mostly at the C level, working for blue-chip organisations as Ford Motor Co, Rank Xerox and Yellow Pages. The Delivery of our programmes is done through either one of the Directors, or a small group of highly professional Delivery Managers who have been involved as CxO’s in our programmes for a number of years.
Our People
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Joint Founder & Executive Director
Don Andrews
Don was a co-founder of the business and is now focused on winning new business.
Director
Nick Harknett
Nick looks after a number of existing clients, and is responsible for the Marketing & Finance.
Director
Neil Hollister
Neil looks after a number of existing clients, and is responsible for Operations.
Internal Delivery Manager
Natalie Cleathero
Natalie is responsible for developing the post program evaluation reports, and also runs some programs interfacing with our clients.
Internal Delivery Manager
Emily Grant
Emily works in putting our programmes together, and working with our clients to ensure course participants receive the right documentation.
Training Delivery Manager
Jane Harrison
Jane runs the training delivery operation - building the business simulator programmes for Youd Andrews clients and providing a great service