Big European List: Consultant-to-Founder Pivots + AI/ML PhDs Building Stealth Startups

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People

• Chris Skouras (Athens, Greece)

  • Strategy consultant at Dialectica turned co-founder of Lope, helping recruiters move beyond LinkedIn for talent sourcing.

  • LinkedIn

• David Zollikofer (Zurich, Switzerland)

  • PhD student at ETH Zürich studying ML and economics, currently working as AI Head at DDMind. Previously spent 3 years as a research assistant at ETH before transitioning to his current doctoral program.

  • LinkedIn

• Diederik Syoen (Ghent, Belgium)

  • Marketing executive turned co-founder of Ringtime, building AI voice agents for lead qualification. Previously VP of Marketing at Cheqroom and Marketing Director at Peripass.

  • LinkedIn