Team

Maja has a background in communications and worked 8+ years at the agency, Prime Weber Shandwick. She started at Prime as a trainee to Carl Fredrik Sammeli during her final year at the Stockholm School of Economics, from where she holds a bachelor’s degree.

She has mainly worked with change, employee engagement, and internal communications, but has experience from a wide variety of projects. She’s worked on global product launches, fundraising campaigns, and with digital transformations for clients in the private and public sectors.  

During her time at Prime, she spent 3+ years as an on-site consultant in branding, corporate communications, and on project teams of global, B2B businesses in telecoms and construction. 

She enjoys playing football and watching ice hockey (MoDo Hockey).

Ellen has 15+ years of experience in marketing and communications and previously worked at the unicorn company, Epidemic Sound, as VP of Marketing and VP of Brand & Creative, and as part of the extended leadership team. Before that, she built and ran Sony Music's first creative department globally as part of Sony Music Sweden's leadership team.

Ellen has been a trainee to Carl Fredrik Sammeli at Prime and the co-founder and marketing director of the failed startup Act:One, which was part of SSE Business Lab. She has received awards at Cannes Lions, Swedish In-house Agency Awards, The Music Ally Awards, and Guldägget. 

Ellen holds a BSc in Economics and Management from Stockholm School of Economics, did summer school at Stanford University through a scholarship, and played college golf alongside her studies for two years at Wofford College in South Carolina, USA. 

Ellen loves music and used to be part of the DJ-duo “Pompa & Ståt”.