Aske Schou Nielsen

Your AI transformation, led from the first assessment all the way to production.

You get a project lead who scopes the work, builds the business case and roadmap, brings your stakeholders along and manages delivery until the solution is live. Behind it are years of leading complex projects in government and business, hands-on experience building AI-ready systems, and a background in information security and GDPR. So the work gets done, and done right.

Black-and-white portrait of Aske Schou Nielsen, smiling and looking to the side.

Based in

Valencia, Spain

From Denmark

Languages

Danish: 10/10
English: 9/10
Spanish: 7/10
Emotional: 9/10

Now

End-to-end AI transformation

Your AI transformation is in the hands of one project lead, from the first look at your processes and IT to a solution running in production. Governance and security are part of the plan from day one, and so is compliance with GDPR, NIS2 and the AI Act. Strategy and delivery stay connected, because the roadmap is written by someone who has designed, built and run AI solutions in production.

Assessment, business case and roadmap where AI adds value, which processes to make lean first and which systems to replace
Stakeholders and governance leadership, IT and the business working from one plan, with clear decisions and clear ownership
Secure, EU-owned architecture AI-ready and compliant by design, with your organisation in control from source code to hosting
Delivery into production planning, follow-up and go-live, backed by hands-on DevOps, CI/CD and infrastructure as code

Start your project today

Awareness training brand

RGPD.COM

Security and GDPR awareness training for organisations, with a website in four languages. Marketing, SEO, graphics and video are all produced in-house.

7.000+ monthly visits10 min average session

Training platform

platform.rgpd.com

Courses in cybersecurity and compliance, from instructional design to onboarding and payments. Built on a complete EU infrastructure, with self-hosted GitLab, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.

20 courses

Experience

Complex projects, taken over the finish line.
More than ten years of leading projects in government and business, including the GDPR compliance programme for a Danish government agency with 1.500 employees and more than 100 IT systems. Today that experience goes into AI transformation, where strategy, stakeholder management and hands-on delivery come together from the first plan to go-live.

2025–now Data analystGlobal Corporate Venturing

Global Corporate Venturing brings together corporate venture capital units around the world, with events from Silicon Valley to London and Tokyo.

End-to-end data modernisation. Mapped and streamlined a legacy, spreadsheet-based data collection process and moved it to a centralised, AI-ready database that serves as a single source of truth.

The result is higher data quality, far less manual work and AI-assisted workflows that free up time and resources. The data now drives insights and new commercial opportunities.

2018–now Information SecurityFreelancer

Information security projects for several clients, alongside developing awareness training courses for the rgpd.com platform.

2018–2023 GDPR.DKBusiness Owner

Founded and led GDPR.DK ApS, a provider of GDPR training and live events in Copenhagen and Aarhus. Full responsibility for leadership, strategy, execution and day-to-day operations, from course development and teaching to branding, SEO and marketing. The website grew to 15.000 unique monthly visitors.

Sold the company in 2022.

2017 Project managerDanish Food Administration

Led the GDPR compliance project across an organisation of 1.500 employees and more than 100 IT systems.

2015–2017 Executive management assistantDanish Food Administration

Supported the CEO and deputy directors of the Danish Food Administration, from quality-assuring policy briefs for the agriculture minister to organising political conferences. Moved on when asked to run the organisation’s GDPR project.

2013–2015 EconomistThe Cabinet of the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture & the Environment

Provided the political system with analysis, briefs and reports on the Danish food and agricultural sector. Highlights included meetings with ministers and taking part in diplomatic meetings at the OECD.

2007–2013 Master degree in Agricultural EconomicsThe University of Copenhagen

Chose agricultural economics to understand how politics, economics, agriculture and the food industry connect, along with development economics, agriculture’s environmental impact and climate change.

Studied in Portugal on exchange, interned in Kenya, held several relevant student jobs and graduated with decent grades.

The degree led to a first professional role at the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and the Environment.

Skills

Focus on what matters.
Business processes get a fast, clear assessment that keeps what creates value and cuts what only adds work. That way every AI transformation project puts its effort where it pays off.

AI and digital transformation

Business process analysis: 9/10
Leading AI agents: 9/10
Data and analytics: 9/10
SEO and content: 9/10
Digital transformation: 8/10
Project management: 8/10

EU infrastructure and compliance

GDPR: 10/10
Security by design: 8/10
EU cloud infrastructure: 7/10
NIS2: 6/10
AI Act: 6/10

Writing

Oct 2026Strategic versus non-strategic costsIncrease your company's profit and market share by spending more on strategic costs. You find the money for it by cutting your non-strategic costs.

Contact

Have an AI project in mind? Let’s talk.

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Phone(+45)4084 6512

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Personal history

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Personality

I would categorise myself as a thinker type personality who has developed the habit of taking action.

I live in Spain

Ending up in Spain was never part of my plan, but here I am.

Spain is the opposite of my home country and it intrigues me with its mountains, natural parks, castles, cool villages, etc. Every day is full of new experiences when you are trying to navigate the world in your 3rd language.

I still hold strong ties to Denmark, and I would like to thank ‘the internet’ for making this possible.

Wait! Agriculture?

I started my career getting good use of my degree in Agricultural Economics but have since moved away from the world of food and politics.

Today, my professional life is in information security, and I love teaching and creating trainings in this field.

Oh boy, a vegan

I never had a plan to go vegan, but having studied and worked in agriculture and having a study published on animal welfare in the scientific journal of Agricultural Economics, I couldn’t deny what I studied, and here we go.

I am still passionate about politics, climate, nature and animal welfare, so I feel I will end up in the food and agricultural industry again.

Career

I am a generalist. I thrive on doing many different tasks and independent work, which my previous experiences will spell out. I am motivated and a self-starter, and I thrive in complexity and among the people I work with.