Courtney Jordan is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, and motivational speaker.

Jordan was selected as the Modern Mogul UK's 2018 Person of the Year^[0]and voted among the London Power 100.^[1]

Jordan was diagnosed with a Learning disability in elementary school.^{[6] [6]}This hampered his reading comprehension skills.

Crediting his learning of Latin to being able to adjust and cope.

Jordan is a graduate of North Carolina Central University.

With two degrees in Political science and Biotechnology.^[3]A combination he hoped would help him grow into a career as a Patent attorney.

Jordan credits his time at University for helping to mature his entrepreneurial spirit.^{[0] [2] [24]}Jordan would go on to receive a Masters in Cultural Anthropology.

^{[6] [0] [2]}It was during his first year of law school that Jordan along with his partner Mary Bassey developed and sell a Computer program.

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Jordan Founded Venture Beyond (VENBEYCAP) in 2013, ^{[2] [5]}primarily as a holding company that would manage his entrepreneurial endeavors, investments and partnerships, ^{[5] [21]}including his partnership with Bassey.

Jointly VENBEYCAP and Bassey founded MarCo Consolidated Resources, ^{[5] [6]}an acronym for Mary and Courtney, ^{[3] [6]}which was a Web applications development firm and a Call centre, calling systems worldwide^[7],and had clients such as sprint wireless.

In 2014 VENBEYCAP purchased the South African Prepaid Mobile Network, CellCom Mobile.^{[8] [9]}In 2015, VENBEYCAP sold the company for a profit to MTN Group.

^{[10] [5]}VENBEYCAP also owns the Textile manufacturing factory, Global Incentives Manufacturing, ^{[11] [5]}additionally, the UK Web hosting company, Host Rite.

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In 2016, Jordan co-founded, Scenester, a multimedia company, which owns digital TV and radio stations, including The Odyssey Channel.

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Jordan is a Fortune 500 consultant for Western Union and Vkontakte, and an advisor to several companies like Choice Hotels.^[14]Jordan is also a motivational speaker^[15], who speaks on topics from entrepreneurship to personal development.^[16]

Founded by Jordan and Bassey, the Courtney Jordan Group, served dis-advantaged youth throughout the community of North Carolina, providing a learning based curriculum through its home school initiative.

As well as providing free camp to under privileged kids.

In 2012 the organization took a group of 50 to Europe.

In 2018, the organization re branded as the Courtney Jordan Foundation and changed its primary focus expanding up it's StartUP Durham initiative^[17].

Now focusing on the Third World.

The foundation helps develop entrepreneurship working in with Third World governments, to pair entrepreneurs with mentors and provide economic resources.^{[18] [19]}