Makers Academy - Expert Impact

Ruben Kostucki,

Makers

Met with John Hunt

Makers is UK’s leading tech training company, changing the lives of people by integrating education and recruitment

Ruben is board director and was a founding member and COO of Makers. He’s been in the business since before the launch and has been instrumental in taking the organisation from just an idea to training 1,600+ people and servicing household names like Google, Tesco, Santander, British Gas or The Financial Times.

He previously built numerous startups all of which were failures and learnings, joined the inaugural Entrepreneur First cohort, was Entrepreneur in Residence at Forward Labs and consulted for BlaBlaCar UK.

Really enjoyed the meeting. John was open, interested and caring which is really positive!”

Ruben Kostucki, Founder of Makers Academy

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