Founder & CEO. Formerly published as Julie Gilbert Newrai.
Thirty years building businesses inside Fortune 50 companies and from nothing. Best Buy, Virgin Mobile, PreciouStatus, Polaris, McKinsey. Everything public that documents it, gathered in one place.
Senior Manager, Corporate Taxation and M&A
Built software for M&A tax asset classification at twenty-two. Earned the CPA licence she still holds.
Rose to SVP of Enterprise Growth
Founded and scaled five business units: WOLF (the Women's Leadership Forum, launched December 2004), Magnolia Home Theatre, Virgin Mobile USA with Richard Branson and Sprint, the Learning Lounge for 140,000 employees, and a national high-end design business across 365+ locations. WOLF grew past 40,000 members in 40+ countries and drove $4.4B in incremental revenue from female customers.
Founder
Took the model outside Best Buy to Fortune 100 companies and nonprofits. IMD Switzerland turned WOLF into a teaching case the same year.
Founder, CEO and Chair. Published as Julie Gilbert Newrai
An encrypted communications platform for professional care settings, built after she could not reach her child's day care while her husband was hospitalised. Reached 178 countries and 12 million daily updates. Won the Minnesota Cup Grand Prize in 2012 and holds a US patent for the underlying status-update system.
Henry Crown Fellow
Named to the fellowship recognising values-based leadership and national impact.
Chief Customer Engagement and Growth Officer
Recruited to lead customer engagement and growth at the powersports manufacturer.
Partner. Business-Building CEO-in-Residence, Leap by McKinsey
Helped stand up and scale the firm's global business-building division. Hosted 35 episodes of The Lighthouse.
Founder and CEO
Advising public and private companies on growth strategy, enterprise value and risk-mitigated scale. Joined the Telestream board in 2025 and The Monroe Institute board in 2026.
Independent editorial coverage and articles she authored.
Her work at Best Buy is referenced in published books, including titles from Cambridge University Press, Harvard Business Review Press and IDEO CEO Tim Brown.
TEDx stages, keynotes, the IMD teaching series and her own interview channels.
Appearances and series she hosts.
Sources for usable images, including press agency material. Rights vary, check each before use.
Regulatory filings, a patent, and archived copies of sites that no longer exist live.
Two of the four long-standing gaps closed in this round.
"Best Buy gets in touch with its feminine side," by Mindy Fetterman, Money section. Listed under In the press.
It is the print edition of "What Works In Women's Networks," BusinessWeek, June 18 2007, issue 07_25. The Bloomberg link is the online version of the same article, because Bloomberg later acquired BusinessWeek. One piece, not two.
Mentioned in September but not found in any public search. A link to the original would let it be placed correctly.
Anything held only on paper. Scans or photographs work, and a rough date is enough.