About us
An AI-driven company, led by two partners
We build AI solutions for regulated industries, and we work with our in-house AI tools.
The team
The two partners lead a team of experts and sign what you receive. Among its roles:
- Product owners
- Set the scope: what your solution must do, and what it must not.
- Data experts
- Map the data it needs and where each kind of data may go.
- Financial analysts
- Measure what the work costs today and where its quality must rise.
- AI experts
- Build the solution and test it on your own work first.
Dirk Meuleman
Partner, strategy
For you, Dirk Meuleman is the partner who knows regulated organisations from the inside and makes sure the solution serves your business.
He is chairman and chief executive officer of Phenix Capital Group in Amsterdam, which assesses impact investment funds for clients such as pension funds, insurers and banks. Before that he was a portfolio manager for private equity and infrastructure at the Dutch pension administrator MN and at Shell.
On the record, with sources
Chairman and chief executive officer of Phenix Capital Group in Amsterdam.
Source: Phenix Capital Group, team page.
Chief executive officer of that firm since March 2020.
Source: Financial Investigator, 4 March 2020.
The clients of that firm are pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, banks, wealth managers and family offices.
Source: Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association, his chapter executive page.
The firm assesses impact investment funds and keeps a database of them. In April 2025 the database held more than 2,500 funds and the firm tracked more than 1,800 asset owners.
Source: Phenix Capital Group, about the firm.
Source: NordSIP, 1 April 2025.
Former portfolio manager for private equity and infrastructure at the Dutch pension administrator MN and at Shell.
Source: Delphi Economic Forum, speaker biography, eighth edition.
Sat on the advisory boards of more than twenty private equity funds.
Source: Delphi Economic Forum, speaker biography, seventh edition.
Holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst charter and of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst charter.
Source: Delphi Economic Forum, speaker biography, eighth edition.
Executive of the Netherlands chapter of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association.
Source: Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association, Netherlands chapter.
Opened the eleventh Impact Summit Europe in Amsterdam in April 2025, a meeting organised by Phenix Capital Group with more than 380 participants from financial institutions.
Degrees from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Source: Delphi Economic Forum, speaker biography, eighth edition.
Tijn van der Zant
Partner, AI and CTO
For you, Tijn van der Zant is the partner who designs and builds your AI system, on the deployment your rules allow. He is our chief technology officer (CTO).
He builds software agents that work under human control, with mandatory human approval gates and an audit trail of every action. He earned his doctorate in AI at the University of Groningen in 2010, directed its Cognitive Robotics Laboratory and is co-founder of RoboCup@Home.
On the record, with sources
Doctorate in AI at the University of Groningen in 2010, with the thesis “Generative AI: a neo-cybernetic analysis”.
Co-author of the chapter “Generative Artificial Intelligence”, published in 2013.
Source: Google Scholar, list of publications.
Co-founder of RoboCup@Home.
Source: RoboCup@Home, executives.
Member of the executive committee of RoboCup@Home from 2009 to 2012.
Source: RoboCup@Home, committees.
Former trustee of the RoboCup Federation.
Source: RoboCup Federation, former trustees.
A paper in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence in 2008, and research in the journal Artificial Intelligence.
Source: Google Scholar, list of publications.
Directed the Cognitive Robotics Laboratory at the University of Groningen.
Named in 2014 as lector in robotics at Windesheim Flevoland. A lector holds a research chair at a Dutch university of applied sciences.
Source: Big Data Value Center, announcement of 2014 (in Dutch).
Builds a public system of software agents with four mandatory human approval gates and an audit trail of every action an agent is sent to do.
How we work
From a free briefing to a running solution in five steps, and you decide on each one separately. See the five steps.
How to reach the partners
Write to both partners at contact@theaiguys.com.
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