Jeroen Van Hautte

TLDR

Jeroen Van Hautte is co-founder and CTO of TechWolf, one of Ghent's leading AI-Native HR Tech scale-ups.

Background

Based in Ghent, Jeroen co-founded TechWolf alongside Andreas De Neve and Mikael Wornoo. TechWolf applies NLP and AI to Skills Ontology and talent intelligence, helping enterprises understand their workforce capabilities. The company is a member of the Wintercircus ecosystem.

What They Do

As CTO of TechWolf, Jeroen leads the technical direction of the platform, including NLP models, skills graphs, and Enterprise AI integrations. He is a recognized voice in the Belgian AI scene.

Career History

• Co-Founder & CTO at TechWolf (Sep 2018 - Present)
• Founders Pledge Member (Oct 2025 - Present)
• Start-up Advisor at Antler (Jul 2022 - Jun 2024)

Education

• MPhil, Advanced Computer Science (NLP focus), University of Cambridge (2018 - 2019), ranked 6th in cohort with 86% average
• Burgerlijk Ingenieur (Ir.), Computer Science, Ghent University (2014 - 2020)

About

Jeroen's work centers on AI-first workforce transformation and skills intelligence. He focuses on building proprietary language models for skills inference that outperform general-purpose models in accuracy and flexibility.

Connections

Co-founded TechWolf with Andreas De Neve (CEO) and Mikael Wornoo. Active in the Wintercircus hub and the broader Ghent tech ecosystem.