Bio

 

Martin Young founded Meyado and now serves as a non-executive Director of the holding company. An experienced international business owner, Martin started the company in Germany in 1993 creating the Meyado brand and launching the origional Wealth Management and Financial Advice operations in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

 

Martin was born in Amersham in England and grew up in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. At sixteen he attended an Army educational leadership programme at the Junior Leaders Regiment Royal Armoured Corps in Bovington before graduating to his regiment and completing four further years service. After leaving the Army and experiencing some gap years in the United States and Europe he started a career within Real Estate Management before a moving to the Investment Industry. After working for Merrill Lynch and Old Mutual he decided to start his own company and incorporated Meyado when he was thirty.

 

He has more than twenty years of business experience focussed on general operational management with specific experience of fund management, financial control and corporate finance. This has included responsibility for due diligence, preparation for Initial Public Offering and other related corporate finance activities. Martin has more than ten years formal experience as an active board member both in executive and non-executive roles.

 

Martin held a variety of entrepreneurial leadership positions and corporate management roles within the industrial, venture capital and investment industries. He has been CEO, CFO or a board member for a number of private and public firms based in North America, Europe, and Asia. Specifically, he has had extensive experience acquiring and running financial services businesses such as Meyado Private Wealth Management and Cameron Butler International and managing operational start-up situations for a number of private equity start-ups including Meretec Corporation.

 

Although Martin experienced success in some private equity projects along with outside investors he also experienced his share of setbacks on other risk orientated projects that were not ultimately commercial. Controversially in 2008 he managed to sell the Meretec Plant in Chicago to CMA Corporation a Australian publicly listed recycling company and later that year sold them the company assets for 37.5 million shares in an ashare deal in August 2008. Unfortunately for Martin who was the biggest shareholder, the financial crisis in October 2008 destroyed the value of the CMA shares and any value for Meretec shareholders extremely quickly. He has received a lot of criticism from other investors. 

 

In 2000 Under Martin’s direction Meyado Group acquired Cameron Butler in Hong Kong and in 2008 Meyado Group started to diversify by taking stakes in other Wealth Management, Real Estate, and Venture Capital companies operating in different parts of the world.  Martin feels that the Group should evolve to owning significant or majority stakes in various International Business’s, in partnership with other entrepreneurs.

 

Martin is happily married with four young Children and spends his time as a non-executive director of other international companies and businesses.

 

He enjoys adventure training and the development of future business managers from all walks of life and has conducted over ten expeditions through the years to such places as Greenland, The Yukon, Belize and other challenging locations to help develop and encourage self development and leadership in others.

 

He enjoys sports and spending time with his family and supports various charities relating to the assistance of military veterans.

 

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