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Jonathan Cornelissen

Co-Founder & CEO, DataCamp

Jonathan Cornelissen is co-founder and CEO of DataCamp, the data and AI skills platform he started in Leuven, Belgium in late 2013 with Martijn Theuwissen and Dieter De Mesmaeker. He holds a PhD in financial econometrics from KU Leuven and wrote the original highfrequency R package for intraday financial data. Now based in New York, DataCamp has taught more than 19 million learners and, after acquiring Optima in November 2025, runs an AI tutor across its platform.