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.

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.

Andreja Satran
COO

Andreja is located in Brussels. With more than 25 years of global work experience in executive positions, primarily in the IT industry, combined with a legal background, focusing on ORM - Basel II legislation audit. Over the past six years, she has been mentoring start-up companies as the GM of the largest start-up accelerator in the CEE region. Her enthusiasm lies in enhancing sustainability, circularity, and nature conservation.

Zsuzsanna Ferenczi
CXO Magician

Zsuzsanna is based in Paris, France. She brings 30 years of expertise to her role as led business development and marketing functions at global corporations from London, Brussels and Paris. In addition to her role as a strategic advisor and facilitator, she has empowered leaders across a wide range of organizations, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, in defining and achieving their growth strategies.

Hans Bunes
CSO Magician

Hans, is based in Stockholm, His professional background includes working with start-ups, Dow 30 companies, and global clients in roles involving sales, marketing, P&L ownership, escalation management, EdTech, AdTech, MarTech, as well as B2B, B2C, B2B2C within an organization with over 300,000 employees. Hans is known for his proactive approach to embracing change and emphasizes the importance of adapting to ensure success.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Bart Vander Sanden
Full Stack Magician

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.

Gabriel Roberti de Siqueira
Front-End Magician

Gabriel is based in Brussels and is an expert in visual solutions and strategies. With 18 years of experience in graphic design, he has done it all: branding, print media, web design, digital presentations, and photography. His passion is to make the world better, one brand at a time. Now he’s in charge of pushing AxonJay’s digital communications forward.