Gauthier Van Malderen

Gauthier Van Malderen is the co-founder and CEO of Perlego. Prior to this, they were the founder of Iconic Matter and Teenage Tourist.

Gauthier founded Iconic Matter in September 2012 as a youth-orientated marketing company that partnered with universities across Belgium, Switzerland, and Morocco. The company distributed free notebooks filled with banner advertisements to students. Major clients included Uber, Pathé, Base, Mobistar, MTV, Belfius, Redbull, Microsoft, Superdry, IE University, BASF, and Proximus. Gauthier exited the business in 2015 when it was sold to a major European media group.

In February 2011, Gauthier founded Teenage Tourist as an open community for teenagers to share ideas and information with other young explorers. The company was sold in 2011 to internet entrepreneur Robby Rai.

Gauthier Van Malderen has a postgraduate degree from the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. Gauthier also has a bachelor's degree in BIEMF: Bachelor of International Economics Management and Finance from Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi' / Bocconi University.

Some individuals on their team include Cristina Palamini - VP, Product, Oliviero Muzi-Falconi - VP, Strategy, and Matt Davis - Co-Founder & CTO.