Breaking barriers with Europe's young moguls-to-be

Madrid

WHEN Jordan Casey took to the stage to present his technology business, he jumped onto the platform rather than walking up the access ramp.

Entrepreneurial energy? Yes, but also adolescent enthusiasm.

Mr Casey, keynote speaker at a conference here last week on European youth in business, turned 15 in November. He has often been reported to be Europe's youngest chief executive, a status that among other honours has won him invitations to meet European Union economic officials in Brussels.

"I feel I've got a headstart," he told the audience, a group of 200 or so teenage achievers, some of the…