We sometimes like to refer to ourselves as a tribe rather than a team. It’s because we work with a shared mission and a shared set of values. We believe in disrupting the status quo for the greater good. We believe in doing things differently and we’re quite sure that working at AxonJay is not like working anywhere else.
Today, we’re a team of IT specialists, data scientists, business strategists and innovation & sustainability people with a disruptive mission to make AI accessible and easy to use for any business.
Born in the year of the pandemic it was only natural for us to become a 'work from anywhere' company with people logging in remotely from the sandy dunes of the North Sea in Belgium, to the Swedish archipelago, Milan, Cologne, Munich, Frankfurt, Ljubljana, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and from our HQ and co-living space at Galerie du Roi Brussels. And with no need for large offices and company cars in every market, it was obvious that we build a climate neutral company.
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.
Jean-Philippe M.L. Schepens
Founder & CEO
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.
Tobias Meffert
Co-Founder & CTO
Thomas Sonck
Co-Founder & CXO
Thomas is based in Brussels, Belgium and is responsible for customer wellbeing, 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.
Thomas Sonck
Co-Founder & CXO
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.
Andreja Satran
Growth Hacker
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.
Isabelle Delaere
Administration Magician
Svend Tottrup
Financian Magician
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.
Svend Tottrup
Financial Magician
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.
Dieter Vandendriessche
API Magician
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.
Bert Jacobs
Self-ML™ Engineer
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.
Carl Rodrigues
Growth Hacker
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.
Julien Demets
Growth Hacker
Cameron Constandt
Social Media Queen
Cameron Constandt, our Social Media Queen takes care of all our social media needs. She graduated from the Vrije Universiteit van Brussel with a Master in Business Administration. Since the inception of being our Social Media Queen, she has worked with dozens of international companies helping them elevate their social media presence and become top of mind in their industry.
Cameron Constandt
Social Media Queen
Enrico Galimberti
Self-ML™ Engineer
Enrico is based in Milan, Italy, and is a Self-ML™ Engineer. He obtained a master degree in Computer Science Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan, and then worked there for two years as an AI researcher, building ML performance models and neural networks.
Enrico Galimberti
Self-ML™ Engineer
Bart is a full stack software engineer living in Leuven, Belgium. He is responsible for the infrastructure & front end development of our amazing Self-ML Platform™. In his early career developing websites since he first discovered the internet as a kid. Then came his graphic designer area. In the travel industry and marketing, he started focusing on creating full stack web applications where he combines his experience in design and communication with deep coding.
Bart Vander Sanden
Full Stack Magician
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.
Birger Baylund
Chair of the Advisory Board
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.
Dr. Bettina Von Stamm
Innovation & Sustainability
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.
Carlo Heriksen
Banking & Finance
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.
Roald Sieberath
Science, Tech & Data
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.
Ben Piquard
Innovation & Scaleup
To democratize AI!
Our mission is to make AI more accessible and easy to use for any business: to make our multi-award-winning Self-ML Platform™ the most effective tool a business can employ to extract actionable intelligence and enable sustainable change in real-time.
To be the most sought after AI tech partner that can help you Disrupt Your Industry and #DisruptWithPurpose #RightHereRightNow!
We dare to disrupt the status quo and we focus on customers who are bold enough to do the same. Our platform allows our clients disrupt their business #RightHereRightNow.
Sustainability is at the core of everything we do. One of our most important missions is to make AI more accessible and easy to use for any business that wants to enable sustainable change today.
Innovation is in our DNA. We innovate together with our customers by challenging norms and disrupting markets together.
In today’s rapidly changing world, the need for agile digital ecosystems has never been greater. That’s why we consider our customers to be partners and together solve business challenges for the greatest impact.
Our multi-award-winning Self-Machine-Learning Platform™ is growing fast. This allows us, more than ever, to provide more reliable business solutions in a scalable way, redefining global digital standards.