Julie Karbo

With more than 29 years in the technology industry, Julie Karbo's strategic marketing and communications experience originated with the birth of high tech marketing. She has provided counsel to executives in a wide array of technology areas, including enterprise software, search, networking, security, social networking/media, mobile, Internet infrastructure, Internet television, eCommerce, and consumer electronics. Karbo has directed positioning, planning and tactical efforts targeted to a wide variety of audiences including general consumers, enterprise executives, IT staff, distributors, systems integrators,
service providers, and developers. She has a strong track record in helping her clients achieve and maintain market leadership positions.

Karbo has provided strategic direction and ongoing counsel to a number of high profile technology companies including Chomp, Cisco, Oracle, Digg, Apple, TwitVid, HipGeo, Flock, Alacritech, Revision3, Composite Software, Equinix, Xerox,Peribit Networks, ACDSee, TechBargains, Net6/Citrix, Paramount/Viacom, and Novell.

Prior to founding Karbo Communications and K/F Communications, Karbo was a partner at Stirling & Karbo, a technology public relations firm in Burlingame, California for nine years. Karbo also served as vice president/group account manager in Ketchum Public Relations' technology practice and as a vice president at Stirling & Cohan PR.

Karbo served as group account manager at Regis McKenna, Inc.
(RMI) for five years. At RMI, she directed positioning and communications
efforts for many of the technology industry's pioneers. She began her
technology marketing career in 1981 at Atari, Inc. where she managed the
product marketing planning, sales promotion and marketing communications
functions in the game and computer product divisions. Karbo started her career
at SRI International in marketing research. She holds a M.B.A. degree in
Marketing and a B.A. degree in Economics from San Francisco State
University.

Julie is a dedicated Golden State Warriors and San Francisco Giants fan, and even went so far as to become a Warriors season ticket holder. She's hoping that leap of faith will soon be rewarded. Julie enjoys reading, hiking, music, film, family and travel, as well as a good sense of humor and sarcasm in moderation.