Dirk Jonker is the founder and CEO of the People Analytics Platform Crunchr. His passion for People Analytics started during the financial crisis in 2007, when companies needed to make big decisions in short timeframes. Today, Crunchr supports companies around the world to build people analytics capabilities through a unique combination of self-service platform and an expert customer success team. Prior to Crunchr, he worked as a consulting actuary in New York and Amsterdam. Dirk combines a unique background of actuarial sciences, years of corporate restructuring experience, six sigma process optimization and data governance, to make People Analytics accessible and actionable. His areas of interest are workforce planning and top potential identification. Currently, he is conducting research in using artificial intelligence to predict talent attrition and to find new ways of visualizing data. IT research and advisory company Gartner named Crunchr ‘cool vendor in Human Capital Management’, Dirk was named Dutch entrepreneurial top talent by the Dutch Financial Times, awarded as Actuary of the Year, and featured in The CEO Magazine and The Economist. He regularly speaks at international conferences and is covered in newspapers with expert opinion.
