Julia A. Glenister
Founder and Principal
Julia Glenister brings 20+ years of experience in high-tech public
relations and a successful career in journalism to the JAGWIRE Group.  
She has led the public relations campaigns and communication
strategies that positioned and launched several of today's well-known
companies in competitive technology markets.

Julia provides strategic guidance and day-to-day management of PR
programs for the JAGWIRE's clients in software markets spanning
security and compliance, business intelligence, network infrastructure
and mobile operating systems and browsers.
Prior to founding the JAGWIRE Group, Julia  led the corporate communications departments
at storage software giant, VERITAS Software (which eventually merged with Symantec), at
e-Business start-up, SmartAge.com, and at Worldview Systems, co-founder of the leading
travel booking Web site, Travelocity.  She was responsible for key enterprise accounts at the
top-rated Niehaus Ryan Wong public relations agency including Deloitte & Touche, Deloitte
Consulting, Silicon Graphics' Cosmo Software, E.piphany, Vignette and Documentum.

After growing up an expatriate in Saudi Arabia, Iran and England, Julia began her career in
England on the editorial team of several aviation trade magazines before moving to
Washington DC to become a credentialed journalist with the US departments of State,
Defense, and the US House of Representatives where she covered defense technology and
foreign policy issues.  She was Managing Editor of
Defense & Foreign Affairs magazine and
the publishing group's daily and weekly newsletters. Her articles have appeared in many
leading military and foreign affairs publications.

Julia co-founded
The International Estimate, a publishing and political-risk consulting
company in Washington DC, and has spoken at many international conferences on
Asia-Pacific security issues. She left Washington to accept a John M. Olin Fellowship at
Boston University.

Julia holds a BA in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a joint MA in
International Communication and International Relations from Boston University where she
was an Olin Fellow and associate editor at the Center for Defense Journalism. Julia is based
in the San Francisco Bay area.
As a full-service PR consultant, she has helped companies garner positive media and
industry analyst coverage, secure speaking engagements at key conferences and trade
shows and win industry awards.

Her specialty lies in crafting company and product messages that differentiate her clients
from their closest competitors. She carefully tailors media and analyst relations programs
with a mix of traditional and social media communications channels, and this is why
JAGWIRE'S clients regularly appear in the major news media, trade publications and
influential blogs.
Julia Glenister JAGWIRE Group
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