Sean Yazbeck was born and raised in London. He worked as a director of business development for a recruitment consultancy registered on the London Stock Exchange, where he boasted the title of the top-ranking sales person globally at his firm. Yazbeck's work experience also included brokering multimillion dollar deals with Fortune 500 companies in more than 20 locations across the globe.
He then became a contestant on the fifth season of the reality show The Apprentice. He is the first non-American to be selected during the run of the show, and also made history by winning the competition. Since then, he has become the head of sales for Trump Soho Hotel Condominium. He also landed the position of national spokesperson for the Trump Institute and returned to the show's sixth season as a judge.