PIERRE-SIMON NTIRUHUNGWA

A lifelong learner and entrepreneur at heart, Pierre wants to have an impact on the world by empowering people to unleash their potential and be the best version of themselves via his passions for education, entrepreneurship, self-improvement and communities.

He's spent the last 10 years helping thousands of future founders in Europe and Silicon Valley in their entrepreneurial journey by co-founding Founders of the Future with Brent Hoberman CBE and Silicon Students before that. Pierre's focus is now on his new startup Katalist, an entrepreneurial development platform which leverage his work from the past 10 years to accelerate the journey of ambitious future founders at scale. 

Pierre was featured in the Financial Times as one of The UK’s top 100 BAME leaders in technology in 2018, was selected as a "Leaders of Tomorrow" by The Lord Mayor of the City of London in 2019 and has been a mentor for Techstars's Startupboost program, Kickstart London, Nile Rodgers’s We Are Family Foundation and Eric Schmidt's Schmidt Futures Entrepreneur-in-residence programme.

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