CEO & Founder founded Kizomba Evolution in February of 2015 in Rotterdam, as the first Dutch dancer who danced and the first Dutch teacher teaching Urban Kiz classes for all levels in Rotterdam and Nijmegen.

Donnovan his roots are in Suriname, and lives in the Netherlands since 2001.All of his life Donnovan was busy with sports and exercise.
He began in 1992 with competitive swimming, and has done this for 17 years and won many different prices.

After hè ended his swimming career, Donnovan used his knowledge as a swimmer and became a trainer of one of his old swimming team Arethusa in Oss.
Donnovan still holds some records there.

His love for sports drove him to the training supervisor to Sport and exercise at CIOS (Centraal Instituut Opleiding Sportleiders). In his spare time Donnovan was also active in addition to competitive swimming with water-polo and basketball.

Donnovan came in touch with dancing for the first time in 2004. when he started with Hip Hop before he found his passion for Kizomba through Salsa. After his first Kizomba workshop in 2013, Donnovan knew that he wanted to make this dance style his own. and set his goals to becoming a much better dancers, by practicing everyday. Donnovan started with Kizomba (traditional dance), but found the Urban Kiz style more suitable to his background of dancing. He started taking Urban Kiz workshops from some of the best teachers around.