Andrew Young is Head of Ontology at SEEK Group, a diverse group of companies encompassing a strong portfolio of employment, education and volunteer businesses across Australia, New Zealand, China, South East Asia, Brazil and Mexico. A 32-year search industry veteran his career spans editorial management, enterprise search software sales and information management consulting roles in addition to his current position in online product development and AI enablement. Andrew started his Ontology journey in London working as a sub-editor at Reuters where he defined new standards for news content classification and worked on early iterations of named entity recognition systems. Whilst working for Dow Jones in the U.S. he patented a taxonomy design and auto-classification system which opened up an opportunity to work for Norwegian search software pioneers FAST Search - a career pivot which involved a spell in software sales and which ultimately led to him managing partner relations across the Asia-Pacific region for Microsoft’s SharePoint business. A spell in consulting led to SEEK where Andrew has been hooked for 5 years now on its purpose to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed.
