Joe Mahoney

Joe Mahoney is Founder and Executive Director of the Youth Entrepreneurship Initiative, a Bermuda based nonprofit organization featuring best practices in youth enterprise education, innovation, and creativity.

Begun in 2000, the YEI’s first program in Bermuda continues to feature the award-winning curriculum of The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship in intensive weeklong BizCamps with over 1,200 aspiring young Bermudian entrepreneurs have earned Entrepreneurship Certificates. We are also in the middle-schools where each year 320 students are introduced to the techniques of writing a business plan. This includes our most recent program from NFTE “Career Exploration” which prepares students to make informed decisions on which Senior School Signature into they wish to enroll.

He serves as a community partner on the Bermuda Signature Schools Transition Team through an agreement with the Bermuda Department of Education to form a public/private partnership entitled, the Youth Business-education Initiative (YBeI) to provide consultancy on enterprise education curriculum, teacher training, practicum development, and mentoring for teachers and students in the government schools. 

In 2019 he joined the Board of Directors if Ignite, Bermuda’s business incubator and serves as Chair of the Youth Engagement Committee.

Joe was a founding member of the Bermuda Host Committee for Global Entrepreneurship Week which, since 2008, occurs each year in over 160 countries. In partnership with the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation. he has managed GEW activities which celebrate innovation and creativity through ‘challenges’ in schools, colleges, and community-based organizations.

Mr. Mahoney has been involved in institutional advancement, fundraising, consulting, and not-for-profit direct marketing/database management since 1977.  Joe’s spent 20 years as an administrator at Babson College in Wellesley Massachusetts from where he also received his BS in business administration. His most recent role was assisting in the development of a teacher-training platform for pre-college entrepreneurship courses.

Joe is an active Certified Entrepreneurship Teacher Training Instructor delivering NFTE’s instructional train-the-trainer program “NFTE University” to high school educators globally. He is also a Certified Program Manager of the “Jump Right In” incubator program” from the Center for Entrepreneurship Education and Development of Halifax, Nova Scotia.