| Eligibility Requirements
If you are interested in finding out if you qualify for a YPO membership, please review the current membership criteria set by Young Presidents' Organization International (YPOI). To become a Chapter member you must first join at the International level.
February 2009
Current Eligibility Requirements for YPOI membership
TITLE
Applicant's Title must be: CEO, President, Managing Partner, Chairman of the Board, Managing Director, Publisher or equivalent of any of the above. Both a Chairman of the Board/CEO and a President of the same qualified corporation may not simultaneously be members of YPO.
AGE
New Application must be received & approved by YPOI before the applicant reaches his or her forty-fifth birthday.
CORPORATION COMPLEXITY
Corporation Definition:
Corporation, as the term is used within YPO, includes incorporated or limited business entities, partnerships, and other forms of business organization deemed, at the discretion of YPO's Executive Committee, to be substantially equivalent to businessess incorporated under the laws of the appropriate legal jurisdiction. This definitions also includes academic institutions, not-for-profit organizations, and government entities. All Corporations must be operating businesses not primarily generating passive income.
Qualifying Corporation:
An applicant must be qualified in addition to age and title, by the rules of corporate complexity established by the YPOI Board of Directors. The candidate must meet one requirement from each category below; he or she must meet at least one 'A' requirement AND one 'B' requirement.
'A' Requirements
#1 Candidate must have at least 50 regular, full-time employees or the equivalent under his or her control. Persons engaged on a commission basis rather than straight salary are considered employees if they are permanently connected with the corporation and receive their principal livelihood therefrom. Seasonal employees are not included in YPO's employee definition.
OR
#2 The total annual compensation of all employees, excluding the compensation of the candidate, must exceed US$1,000,000.
'B' Requirements
#1 The corporation must meet dollar volume requirements based on the type of corporation he or she operates, as follows:
Sales/Service/Manufacturing: Corporations must have at least US$8,000,000 in gross annual sales or turnover.
Financial Institutions must have average annual assets of at least US$6,000,000.
OR
#2 The corporation must have an enterprise value of US$10,000,000 as defined by one of the following:
-Net worth or assets before depreciation of US$10,000,000
-Independent third party investment/valuation of US$10,000,000
-The sum of the company's public equity value plus its debt less cash must exceed US$10,000,000
To qualify for membership into YPO a candidate must meet one requirement from each category above; he or she must meet at least one "A" requirement AND one "B" requirement.
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