Aldo de Pape

Aldo de Pape
Aldo de Pape speaking at EdTech Europe
Born	(1979-07-27) 27 July 1979
Residence	London, United Kingdom
Occupation	Founder and CEO of TeachPitch
Years active	2014-present

Aldo de Pape is the founder and CEO of TeachPitch, a cloud-based educational discovery and management platform for teachers and schools.^[1] De Pape was identified as one of ‘the 100 most influential leaders in Edtech’ and was mentioned as one of ’13 digital leaders driving education forward’.^[2][3]

Life and early career

De Pape grew up in Belgium and attended Utrecht University to pursue a degree in International Relations and later received a degree in General Management from Vlerick Business School. After his education, De Pape worked as an economics teacher at a special needs school in the Netherlands, after which De Pape went into a career in publishing. Furthermore, De Pape authored the children’s book “I am…!” in 2008.^[4]

TeachPitch

De Pape founded TeachPitch in July 2014.^[5] TeachPitch was created as a solution to the problem of the growing abundance of online learning resources which De Pape experienced during his own time as a teacher while constantly being time- and budget constrained.^[6] The platform was deliberately conceived as a global community, inspired by de Pape’s years of working with teachers across the world through the education charity As We Grow.^[7] In 2016, De Pape was shortlisted by The Great British Entrepreneur Awards as one of the 50 best tech entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom.^[8]

Since its founding, De Pape has grown the company to a team of 17, spread in offices around the world in London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China) and Tirana (Albania).^[9]

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