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Jonathan Cornelissen
Jonathan Cornelissen is a Belgian entrepreneur, PhD in financial econometrics, and the co-founder and founding CEO of DataCamp, the online data science education platform he started in 2013. Frustrated while teaching himself R during his doctorate, he built DataCamp to make data skills accessible through interactive, browser-based courses. Over six years as CEO he grew it to more than 10 million learners, 200,000 paying subscribers, 2,500 enterprise customers and over $50 million in annual recurring revenue. He authored an introductory R course completed by over a million learners. Since stepping back from the CEO role he has focused on angel investing across education, AI and crypto, and writes about company building, hiring and startup equity.
Kirill Makharinsky
Kirill Makharinsky is the co-founder and CEO of Enki, an AI-powered work-skills coach used by professionals at companies that want their teams fluent in data, SQL, Python and the rest of the modern productivity stack. An Oxford mathematician who graduated top of the UK, he previously co-founded Quid (now NetBase Quid) and Emerging Travel Group (Ostrovok, RateHawk, ZenHotels), two companies whose combined revenues run into the hundreds of millions. He angel-invests on the side and has been on Forbes' 30 Under 30 Europe list.