Venette Van Zyl De Villiers

Venette Van Zyl De Villiers has a diverse work experience in the field of data and analytics. Venette started their career as a Data Analyst at Woolworths in 1998, where they worked until 2003. Venette then joined RCS as the Head of Product and Analytics, a role they held until 2007. Following this, they worked at Principa as the Head of Analytics from 2007 to 2009. Venette then joined Woolworths again, this time as the Head of Value Management, a position they held from 2009 to 2011. After that, they worked as a Consultant at Tenacity Financial Services from 2011 to 2016. Currently, Venette is working at Pepkor Holdings Limited as the Head of Data and Analytics since 2016.

Venette Van Zyl De Villiers completed their Honours in Econometrics (Cum Laude) from the University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria, spanning from 1991 to 1994. Prior to that, they attended Waterkloof High School from 1986 to 1990, although no specific degrees or fields of study were mentioned for this period. In addition to their formal education, Venette has obtained additional certifications, including "Data Science and Machine Learning: Making Data Driven Decisions" from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in August 2022 and "Google IT Automation with Python Specialization" from Coursera | Google in December 2021.