Building a next generation company

  • Pan-European organization (remote offices in several european cities)
  • Co-living HQ in the historical centre of Brussels (Gallerie du Roi)
  • Net zero emission tribe culture
  • Unlimited holidays policy (if tasks are done)
  • Inclusive work environment
  • Heartwarming business / leadership approach
  • Guided meditations & Insightful Fridays focused on personal growth
  • Creating awareness of collective consciousness
  • Exclusive art experience
  • Tribe Stock Option Plan with a Heart
  • Building leading edge technology with a higher purpose

The AxonJay Tribe

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.

Our Tribe

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

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.

Andreja Satran

COO

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.

Zsuzsanna (Zsu) Ferenczi

CXO Magician

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.

Hans Bunes

CSO 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

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

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

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

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

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.

Bart Vander Sanden

Full Stack Magician

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.

Gabriel Roberti de Siqueira

Front-End Magician

Advisory Board

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

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

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

Stijn "Stan" Christiaens
Advisory board member

Stan is a Founder & Chief Data Citizen at Collibra. He leads Collibra’s Data Office and is responsible for overall data strategy, data infrastructure and translating internal learnings into value for our customers and partners. He is also Collibra’s product evangelist and drives future innovation. He is a sought-after expert resource, industry speaker and author on the topic of Data Intelligence.

Stijn “Stan” Christiaens

Data & Innovation

Véronique Tran-Goussard
Asian Office & Sales

A French citizen based in Singapore who thrived in the global dynamic IT industry for over 25 years. She co-founded a company that harnesses the power of data and successfully sold it to the largest American data integration firm. Her GTM & Sales background will accelerate the execution of AxonJay’s Go To Market globally based out of Singapore. ‘I am excited to be a part of the AxonJay’s highly skilled, motivated and engaged Tribe; as well as their disruptive vision of the future of AI.‘

Véronique Tran-Goussard

Asian Office & Sales

Our purpose

To democratize AI!

Our mission

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.

Our vision

To be the most sought after AI tech partner that can help you Disrupt Your Industry and #DisruptWithPurpose #RightHereRightNow!

Our values

Dare to Disrupt

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

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

Innovation is in our DNA. We innovate together with our customers by challenging norms and disrupting markets together.

Co-creation

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.

Trust

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.