Career
As captain, he led the team to its first National Collegiate Athletic Association Soccer National Tournament appearance in 1998. Despite signing professional terms with Partick Thistle Football Club, Kean opted to focus primarily on his business interests and moved to Portuguese Glasgow Juniors Football Club and then to Largs Thistle Football Club, before retiring in 2008. He completed an undergraduate degree in Nutrition & Physiology whilst at the University of Cincinnati.
In 2001, Kean founded the sports scholarship agency FirstPoint United States of America with the assistance of a £1000 loan from the Prince"s Scottish Youth Business Trust.
The company has gone on to provide assistance to over 7,000 sportsmen & women. Brokering over $150 million in scholarship deals on their behalf.
Andrew Kean was named as a finalist for the Shell LIVEwire Entrepreneur of the Year award and Royal Bank of Scotland Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards, respectively. In 2009, Kean was appointed to the Board of the English Women"s Golf Association (now England Golf) and served as an Aftercare Advisor for the Princes Trust.
Andrew Kean was educated at Street Columba"s School, Kilmacolm and Dunoon Grammar School.