Benjamin Ashley

Benjamin is a Data Scientist with a Master in Big Data and Business Intelligence; he has a passion for finding meaningful insights from datasets.

In the year 2000, Benjamin graduated in Industrial Economics from Nottingham University, UK after which he moved to Spain where he analyzed documents for letters of credit as a financial trade tool for high value international accounts at the BBVA bank, then going onto analyzing incidences in their investigations team.

Due to his interest in data within a business environment, Benjamin created a startup to help business executives make the most out of their data and help them with data related challenges within their work.

In 2015 he joined the IE family where he has been putting his expertise in both data and finance to use in giving classes for High-Impact Online Programs as well as Undergraduate Bachelor students in subjects ranging from data visualization and Fintech to Artificial Intelligence.

Benjamin currently works in a team of data scientists solving the transversal business needs in a company in the nuclear energy sector. In 2022 he was invited to the Spanish Nuclear Societies annual congress to present his work on a safety project within the industrial work environment using computer vision, which he had initiated due to his interest in the technology.