Julia Glenister brings 25 years of experience in high-tech public
relations and a successful career in journalism to the JAG Wire Group.
She has led the PR campaigns and communication strategies that
positioned and launched several of today's well-known companies and
products in competitive technology markets.
Julia provides strategic guidance and day-to-day management for the
JAG Wire Group's clients in software markets spanning financial
applications, business intelligence, network infrastructure and mobile
operating systems and browsers. Julia also assists in media relations
project work for several partner PR agencies.
Julia has led the corporate communications departments at storage software giant, VERITAS
Software (now 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 the United Kingdom, 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 and
defense, and the US Senate and 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 in 1988, and has spoken at many international conferences on
Asia-Pacific security issues. She left Washington after being awarded a two-year 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.
Her specialty lies in developing company and product messages and initiatives, as well as
building effective media and analyst relations programs, and media and crisis
communications strategies.