Jean-Philippe M.L. Schepens
Founder & CEO

Jean-Philippe is based in Brussels, Belgium and is the founder of AxonJay. He’s an economist, statistician and ornithologist. His career includes roles such as the Federal Chief of Cabinet as well as roles within several Tier 1 software and telco & data companies. He was also the co-founder of one of the first big-data start-ups in Belgium that was successfully sold.

Svend Tottrup
Co-founder and CFO

Svend is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has an international corporate career as CFO, CEO and COO. Svend has taken the journey with Private Equity companies four times and worked in several industries the latest two with tech companies. Svend loves to see companies and people grow and is great to help a company executing its strategy. I’m proud of working in a company with a clear purpose to have a positive impact on the planet and people.

Tobias Meffert
Co-Founder & CTO

Tobias is based in Frankfurt, Germany. He is responsible for the team around all topics concerning AI, ML & Infrastructure to get you running fast with newest technology and without headaches. Tobias covered bases in the past involving local and international projects around getting analytics & science into operations with small, medium to top tier companies.

Thomas Sonck
Co-Founder & IT Master

Thomas is based in Brussels, Belgium and is responsible for IT, infrastructure and Self-ML Platform™ development. He guides the Web Team and is the link between the Tech Team, our customers & the Go-To-Market Teams. Thomas has a background in tech startup leadership and IT, digital platforms and application development.

Isabelle Delaere
Administration Magician

Isabelle is based in Brussels, Belgium. She is our Admin Magicia and she uses her creativity and eye for detail to handle most of our administration. Isabelle has a background in digital application design and web development.

Julien Demets
Associate

Julien is based in Brussels, Belgium and is our Digital Dynamo. He is graduated from the Solvay Brussels School in management science.  He is part of the disruptive GTM (GoToMarket) teams. His main tasks are to bring our Products to the market and to digitalise the prospecting and sales processes.

Lorenzo Fiorentini
Self-ML Engineer

Lorenzo is based in Bruxelles Belgium and he is a Self-ML™ Engineer. After obtaining a double master in Mathematical Engineering between France and Italy he has worked as Data scientist in consulting, advertising and banking. Currently he is living the dream of applying the "queen of sciences" in real world application and leading sustainable life in Brussels.

Dieter Vandendriessche
Full Stack Magician

Dieter is based in Ostend, Belgium. As a full stack engineer he is responsible for infrastructure and Platform development. Dieter graduated a bachelor medical lab technician who reversed his destiny and background to a full stack programmer for some years now.

Emely Alonzo
Full Stack Magician

Emely is based in Madrid, Spain. She's been interested in technology since she was very young, and in recent years, coding has become one of her passions. Emely dedicated her time to gaining proficiency in several intricacies of web development in order to better herself as a developer and problem solver.

Bert Jacobs
Self-ML Engineer

Bert is based in Aarschot, Belgium, and is a Self-ML™ Engineer. As a bioscience engineer with a Ph.D. in chemometrics, he brings over 10 years of data science experience with professional journeys in multivariate statistics, machine learning, scientific research, engineering, and project management.

Celia Arroyo
Social Media Sorcerer

Celia is based in Brussels, Belgium. Responsible for spreading the #DisruptWithPurpose message through Social Media. Celia has studied Public Administration and Management in the Complutense University of Madrid, and is currently finishing her Master in International Relations at the ULB. She has a deep interest in Social Media, and is ready to disrupt with a clear purpose!

Jasper Sels
Health Hacker

Jasper is based in Ghent, Belgium. He is responsible for keeping the Tribe healthy and fit for their amazing purpose of helping the Nairobi/Mombasa startup scene and climbing mount Kilimanjaro. Together with his army of experts, he will guide us towards an overall better health at a physical, emotional, and mental level.

Carl Rodrigues
Growth Hacker

With a focus on sales and strategy, for 30 years Carl has helped startups scale via triple digit growth and exit including Servecast to Level 3 Communications for $45m in 2007. Founder of the Joining the Dots, the data, AI, fintech and blockchain startups network, he also built the community at the Open Data Institute founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. London-based, he has a degree in Classics from King’s College Cambridge. 

Andreja is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She brings more than 25 years of work experience abroad in senior management positions, mainly in the IT industry with an emphasis on sales and marketing strategy, business development, ORM Basel II and III legislation, and the last 6 years working with start-up companies also as GM of the largest startup accelerator in the CEE region. She holds a college degree in law science and is passionate about improving the global micro-economy, circularity, and nature conservation.

Anna is based in Belgium and Greece, and is our Data Inspector. Her main responsibility is to prepare data for analytical or operational use for a wide range of AI related tasks on the AxonJay Self-ML Platform™. She has studied Rural and Surveying Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Cartography at TUMunich and Real Estate, as well as Data Analytics at the University of Glasgow.

Birger Baylund
Chairman of Advisory Board

Birger is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. After 20 years in the corporate world Birger founded DebitorRegistret, aiming at breaking the monopoly of RKI within consumer credit. After a bumpy road he sold the business to Bisnode. “I know what it is like to start a business. The passion and enthusiasm, the doubts and black holes. And love to help people solve problems - and walk beside them all the way,” he says.

Dr Bettina von Stamm
Innovation and Sustainability

Dr Bettina von Stamm is based in Munich, Germany and brings her expertise in innovation and sustainability to the Advisory Board. She has been working independently at the boundary between academia and business since 1992 and loves consulting and public speaking as much as she loves teaching, researching, writing and developing tools and frameworks that help organisations on their journeys to become more innovative and sustainable.

Carlo Henriksen
Banking and Finance

Carlo Henriksen is based in Antwerp, Belgium. He’s a commercial engineer and holds an MBA.
He was CEO of Bank Van Breda during 25 years. Bank Van Breda focuses on family businesses and professionals. Today he is an independent director of Argenta, Belgium’s fifth largest bank.
He’s eager to help Axonjay to focus and keep simplicity, through his presence in the advisory board.

Roald Sieberath
Science, Tech and Data

Roald is based in Liège, Belgium. He is a computer engineer and MBA, and studied at Louvain, Solvay, and at Stanford. As a longtime entrepreneur, he has been involved as co-founder in a number of ventures: mobile messaging, e-learning, big data & social web, AI, and as a long-time board member at Odoo (a unicorn). He is also a venture partner with seed-stage fund LeanSquare, a Kauffman Fellow, and a guest professor at UCLouvain.

Ben Piquard
Advisory board member

Ben is based in Brussels, Belgium. Executive advisor of LeanSquare, Start-up Investment fund of the Noshaq Group, Ben is a both a veteran of the Software Industry with 15 years technical and sales positions in Micrososft, Business Objects, Siebel or PeopleSoft and 9 years in the Start-up funding and coaching business.