Julia Morrison

Julia Morrison, a Data & Operations Research scientist at heart, is currently a Vice President of Data & Analytics Technotoly at Marriott International on the CTO’s team. Julia has been with Marriott for over 20 years in progressively expanding roles in Data Engineering, Product Management, Privacy, Analytics, Data Science, Pricing & Revenue Management, all on Technology side. In recent years, Julia lead development and growth of the Modern Data Platform, Marriott Intelligence Platform, Tokenization Platform, Event Hub and real-time Customer 360 systems. Under her direction, Data Platform grew from purposely built warehouses to the single Data Platform with one stop shop for Business Analysts, Data Scientists, supporting many marketing, computational, financial, and operational business processes.

Julia began her career at Marriott in Revenue Management Systems, where she developed pricing, forecasting, and optimization models and later led the team of Data Scientists who were responsible for building all the Machine Learning models for revenue, pricing, and inventory optimization.

Prior to joining Marriott, Julia was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, specializing in Pricing, Analytics, Retail, and Consumer Packaged Goods.

Julia holds PhD in Operations & Financial Engineering from Princeton University, and BS in Applied Physics & Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Originally from Ukraine, Julia lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and their three teen kids. All three kids play ice hockey, so Julia is very active in the local youth hockey community, manages a couple of travel teams each season, and specifically helps with travel planning for their teams and ensures the teams stay in best hotels.