Colette Young

Entrepreneur

New York City

Colette is an entrepreneur working with consumer and technology based start-ups and businesses. She is currently building out the retail and luxury goods division for o9 Solutions, a SaaS-based enterprise planning start-up, founded by entrepreneur Sanjiv Sidhu. She is the founder of Coco Zaza, a boutique consultancy specializing in tech, fashion, food and hospitality. Through Coco Zaza's hype, she launched her own fashion blog in May of 2014 to keep track of her personal style, adventures and travel. Colette is also a co-founder of an NGO called The Happiness Assembly and is currently one of the youth mentors for UN Habitat’s Global Youth fund. Colette built her first business at the age of fourteen, a women’s fashion boutique, and has been coined one of the top young entrepreneurs by The Today Show, Forbes and MSNBC to name a few. Colette previously worked at FirstMark Capital and at Prada Corporate. Find her @thecocozaza or coco@cocozaza.com.