London

Julie joined Microsoft in 2004 as Regional Service Manager for Europe, responsible initially for developing and managing the Search Account Services teams, who provide world class service to Microsoft's Premium search clients. Over time, her role evolved to include Display Media Operations also, leveraging her prior experience from Yahoo! She is now Client Service Director for Microsoft Advertising (UK) responsible for Premium Search, Display Account Management and both Display and Network Operations.

Julie's career in New Media began in 1998 as Advertising Operations Director at Yahoo! Europe, where she expanded her role to include Advertising Systems and created a team of Technical Specialists to support the regional Ad Ops teams. In 2002, she joined Overture UK as Head of Implementation as part of the Account Management group and in 2003 became a Product Manager, supporting the Customer Operations group in Dublin. Her offline career covered multiple sales operations management roles in traditional business magazine publishing and conference organisations.