Ulrik Stig Hansen is co-founder and co-CEO of Encord, a data infrastructure company that helps AI teams curate, annotate, and align multimodal data, from sensor streams to video, for physical AI systems like robots and autonomous vehicles. He co-founded the company with Eric Landau, launching its first product through Y Combinator in 2021. Before Encord, he worked in global markets at J.P. Morgan in London, trading emerging market derivatives. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Imperial College London, where the idea for Encord first took shape.