The One Young World Entrepreneur of the Year Award, this year supported by TFG Asset Management, was created in 2019 to identify and promote five of the world’s most revolutionary entrepreneurs under the age of 35. Each year, it continues to celebrate innovative young leaders who are having a positive global impact through their ventures and inspiring others with their leadership.
This expert judging panel has been invited by
One Young World to choose five exceptional winners who are overcoming barriers and taking on major global challenges that the world faces today.
The judges for the 2023 award are:
Stephen Prince
Stephen Prince is Chief Executive Officer of TFG Asset Management, which has $41 billion in Assets Under Management and is the diversified alternative asset management business of Tetragon Financial Group, a close-ended investment company listed on Euronext. Stephen is also a member of Tetragon’s Investment & Risk committee.
In addition to his roles at Tetragon, Stephen is Chair of the Investment Committee at Heinz Endowments.
Stephen has an A.B. degree from Princeton University, majoring in English, and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School. Stephen is based in New York with his wife, Hailey, and their three children.
At Princeton University, Stephen and Hailey have endowed a Service Focused Internship and Program Fund that supports students with stipends and grants to pursue internships and academic experiences in organizations that address problems related to healthcare. Stephen also works in a volunteer capacity to support Afghan refugees resettling in the United States post the Allied-withdrawal. Outside of the office Stephen is a keen amateur magician.
Angela F. Williams
Angela F. Williams is President and CEO of United Way Worldwide – the first Black woman to lead America’s United Way’s global network serving 1,100 communities in 37 countries and territories around the world.
With more than 30 years of leadership experience in the nonprofit and corporate sectors, Williams brings her innovative vision and a long history of purpose-driven work to her role at United Way Worldwide.
Williams previously served as president and CEO of Easterseals; general counsel, and chief administration officer at YMCA of the USA, inter-faith liaison for the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund; special counsel on criminal law for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee staff and as U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG).
Williams vision for United Way Worldwide is to create equitable solutions in communities and ensure that people experiencing problems have a voice in solving them.
Elio Leoni Sceti
Elio Leoni Sceti is co-founder & chief crafter of thecraftory.io, the first investment house for purpose-driven CPG challenger brands. Elio is OYW Trustee & Counsellor and he is an independent Board Director of Kraft Heinz, Barry Callebaut, and previously AB InBev . He is Chairman of LSG holdings, an early stage consumer tech investor and the UK board chair of education charity Room to Read. Elio was previously CEO of Iglo Group and EMI Music, after an international career at Reckitt Benckiser and P&G.
Firdaous El Honsali
Global Vice President, Dove External Communications & Sustainability. Firdaous joined Unilever in 2015 after 9 years working on various roles at the L’Oréal Group and The Body Shop. She has always had a passion for brands with purpose, brands that take action to make the world a better place. With over 8 years of working on Dove Firdaous has led a new marketing model called ‘Others Say’ engaging with the outside world, to drive maximum talkability particularly on the brand purposeful campaigns and innovations. Firdaous is an advocate for positive beauty, also driving Dove’s sustainability agenda, leading on key topics such as cruelty-free, fighting plastics waste and driving Dove’s Forest conservation and restoration efforts. Firdaous is French Moroccan and lived between Rabat and Paris as a child. Eight years ago, she moved to London. Outside of work, she is a mum of triplets enjoying life in London.
Masami Katakura
Masami has served as the EY Japan's Assurance Leader and Chairwoman & CEO of EY ShinNihon since 2019. She is also a member of the EY Global Diversity & Inclusiveness Steering Committee. She appeared within the top 10 of the Women Executives List of Involve’s HERoes Women Role Model Lists for three consecutive years in 2022, 2021 and 2020.She also received the “Breakthrough Award” of Forbes JAPAN WOMEN AWARD 2021.
In July 2020, Masami assumed the head of Assurance Innovation, a newly created department of EY ShinNihon to lead the firm’s strategic and priority initiatives in driving the future of audit and assurance services - Assurance 4.0. Prior to this, she held the positions of EY Japan’s Managing Partner, Brand, Marketing and Communications (BMC) and Executive Board Member and Managing Partner, Strategy Planning & BMC of EYSN between 2016 and 2019.
She has been a member of J-Win Executive Network since 2016. J-Win (Japan Women’s Innovative Network) is an NPO which supports women’s career aspirations under its Women to the TOP program.
Masami was the deputy director in the Information Policy Division, Commerce & Information Policy Bureau in the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI) for two years from 2005 to 2007. In addition, she has served as a member of several government groups and panels including committees for evaluating initiatives on information services and software technology.
Luis Javier Castro
Luis Javier Castro has been the President of Mesoamerica since 1996. He devotes a significant amount of time and resources to social impact initiatives through several foundations, education institutions and associations. He instituted the Mesoamerica Foundation, which invests in four areas: quality education, through a social enterprise that works to develop teachers’ full potential through collaborative leadership skills; advocacy of Sustainability and Conscious Capitalism, through Asociación Empresarial para el Desarrollo, a business coalition in Costa Rica and Raj Sisodia’s Conscious Capitalism Movement; entrepreneurship, through Yo Emprendedor, an NGO that promotes an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Central America; and regional leadership and institutionalism, through the Central America Leadership Initiative (CALI) and the Aspen Institute.
He began his career as an Associate in Bain and Company, working on strategic cases for several of the region’s largest companies. His experience in Bain and Mesoamerica include a large variety of sectors, such as financial services, retail, beverages, airlines, hotels, tourism, and agribusiness.
Luis Javier Castro is a member of the Board of Directors, United Way Worldwide, the largest non-profit organization of the world whose aim is to mobilize communities to effect positive change. He is also a member of the G-50, a select group of business leaders of the Americas, and the Young Presidents Organization among others.
