Julia A. Glenister
Founder and Principal
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Julia Glenister is the Founder and Principal of The JAGWIRE Group, a
strategic public relations consultancy based in the San Francisco Bay
Area. Over the past 15+ years she has created the PR campaigns and
communication strategies that have launched and positioned several of
today's well-known companies as leaders in competitive tech markets.
Since founding The JAGWIRE Group in 2003, Julia has provided strategic
guidance and day-to-day PR account management for clients in diverse
tech markets spanning security and compliance, email and search,
strategic public relations consultancy based in the San Francisco Bay
Area. Over the past 15+ years she has created the PR campaigns and
communication strategies that have launched and positioned several of
today's well-known companies as leaders in competitive tech markets.
Since founding The JAGWIRE Group in 2003, Julia has provided strategic
guidance and day-to-day PR account management for clients in diverse
tech markets spanning security and compliance, email and search,
Current and former clients of The JAGWIRE Group include publicly-traded companies such
as Access Co. Ltd/PalmSource (Japan-based creator of mobile operating systems and
browsers) and ArcSight (compliance and security software company now owned by Hewlett
Packard) and CSC Chemical Energy and Natural Resources Group (an IT service provider
formerly called Computer Sciences Corporation). Start-ups such as Cohuman (online
workspace for coordinating people and managing products), Compassoft (spreadsheet
governance, risk management and compliance sold to Finsbury Solutions in the UK) and
Meshin ((Xerox-funded startup at Palo Alto Research Center – PARC -- which launched a
Semantic-driven Outlook sidebar).
Through a close partnership with Rainmaker Communications, Julia has provided PR
support for Ground Work Open Source Solutions (IT software management),
Hyperion/Oracle (business intelligence), ID Analytics (identity management), Intelliden/IBM
(network management and automation), ProQuo (Web site controlling dissemination of
personal information) and VC firms such as Opus Capital Ventures, Shasta Ventures and
Technology Partners (Cleantech and Life Science).
Prior to founding The JAGWIRE Group, Julia managed the corporate communications
departments at publicly-traded VERITAS Software (merged with Symantec), at SmartAge (a
provider of hosted online advertising and promotional tools whose investors included Accel
Partners and SOFTBANK) and at Worldview Systems (which co-launched Travelocity, the
first major online travel booking site). She was responsible for key accounts at Niehaus
Ryan Wong, one of the hottest PR agencies in the Silicon Valley in the late 1990s. There her
clients included Deloitte & Touche, Deloitte Consulting, Silicon Graphics' Cosmo Software,
E.piphany, Vignette and Documentum. She has also served as Chairman and a Member of
the Board of directors at the North Bay Software & Information Technology Association
(SofTECH), and co-chair of its public relations and marketing committee from 2003-2005.
Prior to her PR career, Julia was an international journalist covering defense technology and
foreign policy issues for publications in London and Washington DC. She co-founded The
International Estimate, a publishing and political-risk consulting company in Washington
DC, and later relocated to Boston to accept a John M. Olin Fellowship at Boston University’s
Center for Defense Journalism. In 1993, Julia followed her heart to San Francisco and
launched a new career in technology public relations just in time for the dot-com boom (and
bust).
as Access Co. Ltd/PalmSource (Japan-based creator of mobile operating systems and
browsers) and ArcSight (compliance and security software company now owned by Hewlett
Packard) and CSC Chemical Energy and Natural Resources Group (an IT service provider
formerly called Computer Sciences Corporation). Start-ups such as Cohuman (online
workspace for coordinating people and managing products), Compassoft (spreadsheet
governance, risk management and compliance sold to Finsbury Solutions in the UK) and
Meshin ((Xerox-funded startup at Palo Alto Research Center – PARC -- which launched a
Semantic-driven Outlook sidebar).
Through a close partnership with Rainmaker Communications, Julia has provided PR
support for Ground Work Open Source Solutions (IT software management),
Hyperion/Oracle (business intelligence), ID Analytics (identity management), Intelliden/IBM
(network management and automation), ProQuo (Web site controlling dissemination of
personal information) and VC firms such as Opus Capital Ventures, Shasta Ventures and
Technology Partners (Cleantech and Life Science).
Prior to founding The JAGWIRE Group, Julia managed the corporate communications
departments at publicly-traded VERITAS Software (merged with Symantec), at SmartAge (a
provider of hosted online advertising and promotional tools whose investors included Accel
Partners and SOFTBANK) and at Worldview Systems (which co-launched Travelocity, the
first major online travel booking site). She was responsible for key accounts at Niehaus
Ryan Wong, one of the hottest PR agencies in the Silicon Valley in the late 1990s. There her
clients included Deloitte & Touche, Deloitte Consulting, Silicon Graphics' Cosmo Software,
E.piphany, Vignette and Documentum. She has also served as Chairman and a Member of
the Board of directors at the North Bay Software & Information Technology Association
(SofTECH), and co-chair of its public relations and marketing committee from 2003-2005.
Prior to her PR career, Julia was an international journalist covering defense technology and
foreign policy issues for publications in London and Washington DC. She co-founded The
International Estimate, a publishing and political-risk consulting company in Washington
DC, and later relocated to Boston to accept a John M. Olin Fellowship at Boston University’s
Center for Defense Journalism. In 1993, Julia followed her heart to San Francisco and
launched a new career in technology public relations just in time for the dot-com boom (and
bust).
As a full-service PR consultancy, The JAGWIRE Group has helped companies garner
positive media and industry analyst coverage, secure speaking engagements at key
conferences/trade shows and win industry awards.
positive media and industry analyst coverage, secure speaking engagements at key
conferences/trade shows and win industry awards.
cleantech and life sciences, IT consulting services, business intelligence, open source, network
infrastructure and mobile operating systems and browsers.
infrastructure and mobile operating systems and browsers.
