Julie A. Karbo

With more than 35 years in the technology industry, Julie Karbo’s strategic marketing and communications experience originated with the birth of high tech marketing. Karbo has a strong track record of helping startups to billion dollar brands drive sales and achieve market leadership. She is known for her strategic thinking, creativity, and passion for technology and the impact it has in our society. 

Karbo has provided strategic direction and ongoing counsel to thousands of tech innovators in her career, including a number of high profile technology companies, such as Apple, Hootsuite, Oracle, Juniper Networks, Cisco, Digg, RTI, eBay, Logitech, Nutanix, Equinix, Citrix, and Atari. She has provided counsel to executives in a wide array of technology areas, including SaaS, fintech, networking, communications infrastructure, data and analytics, greentech, martech, e-Commerce, security, semiconductors/components, social networking/media, consumer electronics, and more. 

Karbo’s agencies consistently rank as some of the most respected technology PR boutique agencies in the world. Karbo also served as vice president/group account manager in Ketchum Public Relations’ technology practice. As group account manager at historic marketing and PR agency, Regis McKenna, Inc., she directed positioning and communications efforts for many of the industry’s pioneers. She began her technology career at Atari, Inc. Her marketing career began at world renowned 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. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her family, hiking with her two rescue pups, rooting for the Golden State Warriors, the 49ers and Giants, and supporting environmental causes and underserved communities.