York Zucchi

Co-founder, Global SME Movement

Biography

York Zucchi is the co-founder of the global SME Movement
York Zucchi is a Swiss born investor and entrepreneur in Africa since 2007. He was previously at Goldman Sachs where he contributed towards the global financial meltdown. He has started numerous businesses (healthcare, IT tourism, academia, etc); some failed and some succeeded. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, Africa and coffee and believes that the right mixture of these 3 will make Africa the continent to be for the next 20 years.

In 2016 he co-founded the SME Movement, an initiative to fix the SME support ecosystem which is now active in many parts of the world with a particular focus on access to markets.

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