An elite club of business owners and Chief Executives, Young President Organisation (YPO) has begun a programmne to directly engage young Chief Executives in the country with their counterparts in developed economies. The engagement would also allow the Chief Executives in the country to compare notes with Chief Executives in big firms like Yahoo, Microsoft, and Starbucks as well other great institutions in developed countries. The programme would offer Ghanaian business leaders a chance to draw lessons from their counterparts outside the country to grow their firms. International Chairman of YPO, Chuck Davis told Joy Business the club’s virtual business platforms facilitates networking between executives in automobile, manufacturing excellence and other sectors. “In 2008 when the economy was in decline worldwide, lots of these CEOs needed help on how to save their businesse...the automobile network for instance set up an automobile crisis forum...to helped each other on how to keep their factories open even though demands for automobile was low”, said Davis. Out-going president of the Ghana Chapter of YPO, Ashok Mohinani, said a lot of prospects await CEOs who join the group. YPO currently has 16 members in Ghana. The international organisation was founded in 1950 in New York and has over 20,000 business leaders in 120 countries as members.