Ulrik Stig Hansen

Ulrik Stig Hansen is co-founder and co-CEO of Encord, the London-based platform for managing, annotating, and optimizing multimodal data for AI. He started his career on the Emerging Markets team at J.P. Morgan and holds an M.S. in computer science from Imperial College London.

From markets desk to computer vision data

Encord's author bio traces Hansen from J.P. Morgan into building tooling for teams that need reliable labeled data for computer vision and multimodal models. He co-founded the company to give enterprises a platform for annotation, quality review, and dataset management rather than ad-hoc labeling pipelines.

Scaling Encord for physical and multimodal AI

As co-CEO of Encord he has helped raise through a Series C and positioned the product for teams shipping physical and multimodal AI. Public case studies on the company site emphasize faster labeling, tighter QA, and keeping humans in the loop where models still fail.