address: 40, Avenue de Broqueville tel: +32 22803425 email: secretariat@yes.be 1200 Brussels – Belgium fax: +32 22803317 website: www.yes.be

PRESS RELEASE - 22/01/2016

Luca Donelli elected Yes for Europe President during

Yes for Europe General Assembly

A renewed team including 4 Vice Presidents has been appointed to support 2016 activities

Yes for Europe General Assembly has elected today Luca Donelli, in charge of International

and European Relations at Confindustria Young Entrepreneurs, 2016 President of Yes for

Europe.

A renewed YES team of European Young Entrepreneurs has been appointed. It also includes

vice presidents Alex Mitchell (Executive VP), Serkan Yazıcıoğlu (for EU Enlargement),

Przemyslaw Grzywa (for G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance) and Mikel Beroiz (for Allied for

Startups).

Luca, who had served has VP, succeeds Dimitris Tsingos, who has greatly contributed to

reshaping Yes for Europe in an effort to appreciate an enlarged Europe and favor

inclusiveness and further integration.

Next events planned: European Youth Entrepreneurship Conference EYEC-5 (Budapest, June

2nd-4th, 2016) and EYEC-6 (Stockholm, Fall 2016) as well as the participation in representation

of the European Union at the 2016 G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance Summit (Shanghai,

27-29 August 2016).

Let’s continue to #scaleupEurope!

address: 40, Avenue de Broqueville tel: +32 22803425 email: secretariat@yes.be 1200 Brussels – Belgium fax: +32 22803317 website: www.yes.be

About Yes for Europe

Yes for Europe – The European Confederation of Young

Entrepreneurs – is the main association of young entrepreneurs in

Europe. YES represents around 40.000 entrepreneurs under 40

years old and aims at improving the economic and social

performance of young entrepreneurship in Europe. Yes has

currently 14 Member Associations from EU 28 and candidate

countries as well as 2 affiliated members. Yes for Europe is also the

representative of the European Union at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’

Alliance and a member of Allied for Startups. Next events planned:

European Youth Entrepreneurship Conference EYEC-5 (Budapest, June 2nd-

4th, 2016) and EYEC-6 (Stockholm, Fall 2016).

Find out more at: http://www.yesforeurope.eu and follow us on Twitter @YesforEurope

About Luca Donelli

Born in 1982, he graduated in International Economics and

Management at Bocconi University in Milan. After an experience in

McKinsey&Co. as a Business Analyst, Luca has started working with

his family business, Donelli, incorporated in 1911 and specialized in

coating, maintenance & finishing services for Oil&Gas, industrial

plants and building construction.

Luca joined Confindustria Y.E. Alto Milanese Chapter, where he

held VP (2009-11) and President (2011-2014) positions. Luca has

contributed to the establishment of MAME YE Network (2010-2011) and represents Italy at the G20

Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance (Sherpa 2011-2014 and now as President and Chairman of the

Membership Committee). He joined Confindustria Young Entrepreneurs Presidency team in charge of

“International and European Relations – Strategic Alliances” and is dedicating time and effort to Yes

for Europe (@YesforEurope) as well.

He is active member of the Confindustria Committee for Europe (2014-2016), B20 Task Force on SME Development (2015 and 2016), steering committee member of Lombardy Energy & Cleantech Cluster (since 2012) and Vice President of Confindustria Alto Milanese (2015-17).

On Twitter @lucadon82