Ella van der Haar

Ella van der Haar has a diverse work experience spanning multiple industries and roles. Ella is currently serving as the Chief of Staff and Strategy and Operations Manager to the Chief Product & Technology Officer at PAR Technology, a leading restaurant tech company. Ella is responsible for driving the company's strategy and operations in order to create a unified commerce cloud platform for over 100,000 restaurants worldwide.

Prior to their current role, Ella founded "Ask a Chief of Staff" and served as a founding member. Ella also worked at AppZen as the Manager of PMO and Operations, where they executed company strategy, led executive team meetings, and managed strategic projects across various departments. Additionally, Ella worked as a Business Operations Analyst at AppZen.

In previous roles, Ella worked as a Statistics Course Expert at Grasple - Open Education, creating math and statistics content for online courses and exams. Ella was also a Procurement Analyst at TravelBird, where they identified and executed cost-saving projects across different departments.

Outside of their business experience, Ella was a member of The Dutch foundation 'De Nationale DenkTank,' where they worked on a pro-bono consulting project to improve education in the Netherlands. Ella also represented the University of Virginia as a full-time member of the Varsity Women's Rowing Team.

Ella's early professional experience includes internships in marketing communications at Kempen & Co and as a Corporate Governance Research Intern at Nyenrode Business Universiteit.

Ella van der Haar completed their education in a chronological manner. Ella obtained a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, where they studied from 2013 to 2014. Prior to that, they completed their Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Political Science at Amsterdam University College, where they attended from 2009 to 2013. Ella also completed their VWO (pre-university education) at MaartensCollege from 2006 to 2008, with a focus on Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics. Their high school education was obtained at the International School Groningen, where they completed the Middle Years Programme (MYP) from 2002 to 2006.

In addition to their formal education, Ella has also obtained various certifications. Ella completed the "Excel: Working Together with Power Query and Power Pivot" course at LinkedIn in June 2023. In 2021, they became an Associate Member of The Chief of Staff Association. In June 2020, Ella completed the "Advanced SQL for Data Scientists" course at LinkedIn, and in May 2020, they completed the "SQL Tips, Tricks, & Techniques" course, also at LinkedIn. In 2019, they completed the "Python Programming" course at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension, as well as the "Python Data Science Toolbox," "Cleaning Data in Python," "Intermediate Python for Data Science," and "Introduction to Python for Data Science" courses at DataCamp. Before that, in 2018, Ella completed the "Managing Big Data with MySQL" course at Coursera. Lastly, in July 2017, they completed the "Data Analysis in R" course at GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften.