Niklas Kolster
About
Niklas Kolster is from Zurich, Switzerland. Niklas is currently CEO at Windsor.ai, located in Zürich Area, Switzerland. In Niklas's previous role as a Data Science, Global Growth at eBay, Niklas worked in Zürich Area, Switzerland until Sep 2017. Prior to joining eBay, Niklas was a Head of Data Science at Siroop and held the position of Head of Data Science at Zürich Area, Switzerland. Prior to that, Niklas was a Consultant at Accenture, based in Helsinki from May 2014 to Sep 2015. Niklas started working as Chairman of the Board at Fenno Turvapalvelut Oy in Helsinki in Aug 2013. From Aug 2013 to May 2014, Niklas was Lead Data Analyst at Pryte, based in Helsinki. Prior to that, Niklas was a Founder and CTO ( Chief Technology Officer ) at Fenno Turvapalvelut Oy from Jan 2006 to Jul 2013. Niklas started working as Founder and CEO at Ipon Communications Oy in Aug 2003.
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Niklas Kolster's current jobs
Windsor.ai connects data from all your data sources to your destinations making the data easy to use. Windsor.ai platform helps companies to analyse the buying journey of customers across all touch-points and uses machine learning models to adjust the media-plan to increase ROI. Currently Windsor.ai captures 100 million data points daily and help our customers to grow sales and reduce the cost of acquisition significantly.
Niklas Kolster's past jobs
Global growth analytics. Uplift modelling and machine learning to optimise targeting and ROI on marketing investments. - Create machine learning models to optimise customer journeys and predict behaviour - Attribution modelling
Recruit and lead data-science team. Setup of Big Data platform. Plan and execute company's personalisation and recommendation strategy. - Created fraud detection service - Created recommendation engine that generated 20% of the revenue
Analytics consultant and big data technology architect. Member of Accenture Scandinavia Management Team. Lead for R and data science in Scandinavia. Working with a wide spectrum of technologies in the analytics and big data space (Hadoop, Spark, SAS, R, Qlik, Tableau etc.)
Leading Video surveillance cloud service provider in Finland.
Designing and setting up Pryte's Big Data infrastructure. Being responsible for building up the company's analytics capabilities, extending to everything from data collection from the end-user devices to data-storage and analytics tools, segmentation and user behaviour modeling. Examples of the tools used were Cassandra, Flume, R, Qlikview and many more. Provided input and recommendations to product development, marketing and business operations based on analysis and insights. I also worked closely with Pryte's operator customers in South-east Asia and developed the analytics and data science possibilites in co-operation with the operators. The role was very wide, challengin and rewarding designing and setting up the whole infrastructure and also taking a more data scientist role once the infrastructure was set up.
Designed platform and started video surveillance as a cloud service company.
Founder and CEO of the first VoIP-operator in Finland until it was acquired in February 2008.
Managed the IT-infrastructure.