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. At 13, Pierre joined the Academy of the professional Football team, Le Mans FC, where he learned about self-development and peak performance. At 21, he joined one of France’s top business schools, ESCP Europe, but dropped out after two years to build his own entrepreneurship school, Silicon Students. At 27, he co-founded Founders of the Future with Brent Hoberman CBE that they launched at 10 Downing Street in March of 2016. With Pierre’s two organisations, Silicon Students and Founders of the Future, he’s built communities and organised 140+ events over the past 9 years impacting thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs, many of whom are now founders of venture-backed startups. Throughout those years, Pierre has been mentioned in 40+ media outlets or online articles including (The Times, The Financial Times, The Evening Standard, Forbes, Wired UK, La Tribune, TheNextWeb, Pandodaily etc.) He 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.