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Jonathan Cornelissen

Founder of DataCamp

New York, New York

Overview 

Jonathan Cornelissen is the Co-founder and CEO of DataCamp, a successful online platform for learning data science. He has a background in financial econometrics and has made significant investments in various startups, particularly in the education and data services sectors. Cornelissen's career highlights include founding DataCamp, a leading platform in the data science education space, and making investments in a range of promising startups at early stages, demonstrating his expertise in entrepreneurship and business development.

Work Experience 

  • Co-founder / CEO

    2013 - Current

    DataCamp's mission is to improve data and AI literacy and enable everyone to read, work with, analyze and communicate with data more effectively. We help over 14 million students, over 200k subscribers and over 4,000 organizations improve their data skills.

  • Lecturer

    2013 - 2014

    Teaching "Introduction to business"

  • Participant

    2013 - 2014

    See www.startupchile.org

  • IT/advisor

    2012 - 2013

  • PhD in financial econometrics

    2009 - 2013

    Subject: New methods for portfolio optimization based on high-frequency data and sustainability scores. Advisor: Prof. Christophe Croux, Co-Advisor: Prof. Kris Boudt.

  • Developer-in-training

    2012 - 2012

    Participant in 3 month course on ruby on rails development. Currently called the starter league: http://www.starterleague.com/

  • Summer of code 2012

    2012 - 2012

    Development of an open-source toolkit for the analysis of high-frequency financial data in R.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Co-founder & board member

    2009 - 2012

    Sagio.be is the first non-profit online private tutoring service in Belgium.

  • Business statistics and Economics

    2006 - 2009

  • Teaching assistance (summer)

    2008 - 2008

    Preparing the course material for the course “Applied Business Statistics” supervised by Prof. Martina Vandebroek.

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