Python Predictions is a team with a healthy mix of business and technical oriented data profiles. Our passion for data and our shared values are what connects us and why we enjoy working together for our clients. Since January 2020, Python Predictions is part of the Tobania group, the leading Belgian Business & Technology Consulting company. We are happy to introduce you to our team, our PyTobians.

Wouter Buckinx
Co-founder & Managing Partner

Geert Verstraeten
Co-founder & Managing Partner

Jan Muermans
Data Strategist

Elien Catthoor
Talent Manager
At Python Predictions, Elien’s main responsibilities are retention of talent and recruitment of new team members. Besides this, Elien is also in charge of general office management.

Benoît Vandekerkhove
Lead Data Science
Since he started at Python Predictions, Benoît developed skills in data analysis, segmentation, recommendations and predictive modelling. He has been working for clients in a wide range of industries such as retail, energy, banking and telco.

Nick Janssens
Lead Data Strategy
As data strategist, Nick has grown expertise in analytics translation, analytical orchestration and change management over various sectors.

Sam Borms
Data Scientist
He holds a Master's degree in Business Economics from Solvay Brussels School, had a brief stint as a financial risk management consultant, and holds a joint PhD from the Université de Neuchâtel and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. During his research, he studied how to use textual data to generate better time series forecasts. He is an open-source software adept.

Sander Vanden Hautte
Data Scientist
Sander built experience in the health, shipping, telco, insurance and banking industry.

Daan Nyckees
Lead Data Science
Since he started at Python Predictions, Daan developed skills in data science and analytics, segmentation, predictive modeling and NLP. He has been working for clients in a wide range of industries such as banking, retail, telecommunications and utilities.

Hendrik De Winter
Data Scientist
Since his start at Python Predictions, he has been working with different clients in banking and retail gaining experience with different tools, algorithms and great volumes of data.

Elena De Roeck
Data Scientist
Since she joined Python Predictions, she worked for clients in banking, retail and telco applying predictive modelling and data analysis.

Nicolás Morandi
Lead Data Foundations
Nicolás started his career working several years in different Software Engineering related positions and industries abroad. He then decided to focus on Data Engineering in order to build impactful applications that leverage the power of Data and AI.

Joost Neujens
Data Scientist
For 4 years, he explored the digital side of geography by automating spatial data pipelines or extracting patterns out of satellite imagery. Joost has experience in the sectors of asset management, insurance & humanitarian aid.

Karel Vandendriessche
Data Strategist
He further developed into a Data Strategist and has grown expertise in identifying and prioritizing data use cases, defining and analyzing processes, and ensuring the successful execution of data-driven initiatives.

Samuel Franssens
Lead Data Strategy
Since joining Python Predictions, he has worked as data strategist and data scientist in a variety of sectors such as telco and supply chain management.

Salar Rezvan Rabbani
Lead Business Intelligence
Salar gained experience in various marketing positions where he eventually focused on data analysis and visualization with tools such as Power BI to build insightful dashboards for business stakeholders.

Ceren Mörey
Data Engineer
As a researcher, she developed an interest in the field of data and steered her career towards Data Science & Engineering by completing an intensive training and an internship as a Data Engineer.

Jano Roelandt
Data Scientist

Bouchra Benjelloun Jbina
Data Analyst
Since she joined Python Predictions, she worked on internal projects and for clients in telco field that helped evolve more of her data analysis and reporting skills, and develop new Business Intelligence tools such as Qlik sense and PowerBI.

Jef Rutten
Data Scientist
Before joining Python Predictions, Jef gained experience as a consultant, where he completed various projects in the FMCG industry.

Manolis Fragiadoulakis
Data Engineer
Since he joined Python Predictions, Manolis advanced his knowledge and skills in pipeline orchestration, while refining his expertise from development to deployment. He has experience in handling market price data for financial trading solutions and providing streaming applications for clients in the energy and base chemicals industry.

Risa Pavia
Data Scientist
Since starting at Python Predictions, Risa has further developed her skills in data analysis, segmentation, and predictive modelling while working on a project in the telco sector. She also has experience in insurance, banking, and government.

Dries Vereecken
Data Scientist
With a master's degree of Business Administration from the University of Ghent in hand, he is looking to further gain experience and expand his knowledge on various topics such as classification, recommendations and predictive modelling.

Michaël Caron
Data Analyst
He gained international experience in controlling and marketing roles and is now focusing on data analysis and visualization.

Zakaria Chahbar
Data Analyst
After graduation, he went on to spend close to 4 years in international trade compliance consulting where he specialized in data analytics. He then pursued an intensive upskilling program to switch tracks and move to data intensive roles.

Patrick Leonardy
Data Scientist
Patrick really enjoys advancing his knowledge by playing with data and trying different models in order to find the approach that works best. He has a huge interest in topics such as recommendations systems, natural language processing and classification models.

Michaël Van Hoyweghen
Lead Data Foundations
After working for some years as an electronics engineer, Michaël made the switch to the data domain and started working as a data engineering consultant. For more than four years, Michaël has been designing and developing data pipelines, applications and platforms to deliver business-ready data to clients.

Karim Chrouabi
Data Analyst
Karim has experience implementing BI solutions for operations (inventory, supply chain), marketing (customer segmentation, churn) and sales covering the entire process from setting up the ETL pipelines to visualization.

Hilde De Coninck
Recruiter
Before joining Tobania she gained a lot of experience in recruitment sector but also in the non-profit sector.

Pedro Román Infante
Data Scientist
After his experience as a software developer, Pedro has decided to change track to Data Science, interested by the understanding of business problems and application of data for their growth and customer satisfaction.

Diederik Lauwers
Business Analyst
Diederik has experience in reporting, analytics and project management. He is eager to help companies structure and organize their data processes and steer them towards more data-driven decision-making.

Samuel Perini
Data Analyst
Samuel can adopt BI methodology that helps data-driven companies to develop an effective business strategy in terms of operations, marketing, and information management. Additionally, Samuel has experience in teaching and training (non-technical) end-users.

Pietro D'Antuono
Data Engineer

Thibault Fabry
Business Development Manager
As a consultative professional, Thibault will be the person who will understand and support your challenges into becoming a data-driven organization. He will evangelize the potential data can bring and build bridges between all related stakeholders.