Ken Young

Executive In Residence

Department: Leon Hess Business School

Office: Samuel E. and Mollie Bey Hall 214

Ken Young is a board advisor and partner at NextWave Consulting, a UK-based technology consulting company. His career spans 30 years as a practitioner and practice manager at several global management consulting firms. After graduating from Columbia University School of Engineering in 1986, Young began his professional consulting career at Accenture as a programmer/analyst, building technology solutions for large money center banks. Upon leaving Accenture in 1990, he spent the rest of his career working for smaller niche consultancies focused on the capital markets technology industry.

Most recently, Young was senior VP for Capital Markets Consulting at First Derivatives, a leading provider of products and consulting services to the financial services industry. Based in New York City, his role was to build out the North American business from the ground up as the first employee in the region. Over the next seven years, he built the business to over 200 consultants, located in five offices in North America, generating over $30 million in revenue per year.