Julia Ekholm

Julia Ekholm has a diverse work experience. Julia began their career as a Consultant at Forefront Consulting Group in 2014 and worked there until 2017. Julia then joined Nordkap AB as the Head of Data Science from 2017 to 2019. Following that, they became a Board member at Productive Solutions Scandinavia from 2018 to 2019. Julia worked at Forefront Consulting from 2019 to 2020 as a Consultant before joining Avado. At Avado, they held the roles of Lead Data Scientist from 2020 to 2022 and then became the Head of Data Enablement from 2022 to 2023. Julia's most recent position is with Hays, where they are currently the Global Head of Customer and Marketing Insights.

Julia Ekholm has a PGDip in Data Science from the University of Glasgow, obtained in 2022. Julia also holds an MSc in Business Administration from Stockholm University, obtained in 2014, and a BSc in Computer and Systems Sciences from the same institution, obtained in 2012.

In addition to their degrees, Julia has obtained various certifications including the Summer School for Data Leaders in 2023 from Carruthers and Jackson, the Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree from Udacity in 2019, the Data Engineering, Big Data, and Machine Learning on GCP Specialization from Coursera in 2019, the Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer in April 2019 from Google, the Deep Learning Specialization from Coursera in 2019, the SAS Certified Data Discovery Scientist from SAS in 2016, the SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 from SAS in 2015, and the Process Mining: Data Science in Action from Coursera in 2015.