Overview
Xander co-founded Donna in February 2024, serving as CTO. Donna is an AI-powered sales assistant that automates follow-ups, CRM updates, and communication tasks for sales teams.
Before Donna, he worked as Tech Lead and Full Stack Developer at yoboo (2022-2024), Team Lead and Frontend Developer at Deliverect (2019-2021), and Full Stack Developer at Kayzr (2017-2019).
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Applied Computer Science from HOGENT.
Career history
In the news
- So proud to see our agents grow up so fast 🥹 After a quick call with a sales rep, Donna had almost nothing to work with: a first name and a hotel name. Then the rep had to hang up and rush into their next meeting. She searched the CRM. No match. She tried three more angles. Still nothing. And instead of giving up or asking the rep for more information through a notification in the app, she changed tactics. She searched the web, discovered additional locations linked to the same hotel group, brought that context back into the CRM,
- Interesting piece in De Tijd today on the growing use of Chinese AI models by Western companies - happy to have contributed a few thoughts from our experiments at Donna. We've been testing Kimi K2.6 in Franky, our internal AI assistant, on some simpler internal workflows that don't involve customer data. For those use cases, costs dropped by roughly a factor of three while quality remained strong. Kimi K3 could make this even more interesting once its open weights are released tomorrow. Fireworks AI recently found it highly
- At Donna, we run into this a lot: permissions get harder once an AI assistant starts assembling context across CRM, meetings, transcripts, and customer data. Wrote a short piece on what changes when permissions move into search and context retrieval. Read more here 👇
- Two more days before we gather in Ghent for the next GenAI Edition! Each talk looks at a different part of what it means to actually ship AI in a startup: Antonio B Curado (Deliverect) on the new bottleneck: who reviews the agents? Ian Jakubek (Donna) on Franky, our all-knowing internal AI coworker at Donna. Tristan Van Thielen (Devoteam) and Mark De Winne (Aikido Security) on the non-negotiables around security and cost control. Simon Coessens (TechWolf) on how Techwolf builds agents top-down instead of ground-up. Different
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