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Julie serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. Julie's 25 years of work experience is balanced between the engineering and management consulting work she did in the first half of her career and her work as an analyst for the past 12 years. The combination of technical and business expertise positions prepared her well to work with business leaders to identify new opportunities offered by mobile technology and to develop strategies to engage with consumers on mobile devices. She has worked with hundreds of clients across retail, travel, banking, insurance, CPG, healthcare, retail, and more to advise and guide the development of their mobile strategies.
Julie's research and analysis have been widely cited in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, BusinessWeek, RCR Wireless, and The Onion and on CBS, NBC, and PBS.
Prior to becoming an analyst, Julie worked at a contextual services mobile startup in San Francisco and prior to that at Booz Allen & Hamilton.
Julie holds a B.S.E.E. and a Master of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
Knowing Which Generators Customers Use For Information Is Paramount
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Channel Enablement Is A Top Priority For 2011
2011 will be a bellwether year for tech vendors. Tech investment by customers and marketing investment by tech vendors are rising ahead of the economic recovery into 2011. Most tech marketers see...

Financing, Marketing, And Collaboration Top Their Wish Lists
Channel partners are afflicted with "cloud identity disorder" — the symptomatology of which is characterized by confusion and fear about their place in the cloud computing demand chain and...