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As a Research Director with JupiterResearch, Julie Ask focuses on evolving
trends in both the telecommunications and automotive industries, examining
both the marketing and technology issues these companies face as they look
to deploy new technologies to enhance their businesses. JupiterResearch
telecommunications coverage and specifically 802.11 examines business models
and technology trends to provide strategic advice and insight to those in
the industry while automotive coverage focuses on how the industry is using
the Internet to support the business-to-consumer and business-to-business
aspects of their business. Ask joined JupiterResearch in May 2001.
Ask's telecom experience dates back to her research at COMSAT Laboratories
where as an engineer she did microwave circuit design - the focus of her
graduate work. After graduating, she began her career in the automotive
industry as an engineer at Delphi Automotive in Germany. After earning her
M.B.A., she worked for almost five years as a management consultant within
the both the Operations Management and Communications Groups at Booz Allen &
Hamilton where her two primary areas of focus were telecommunications and
automotive strategy in the US and Europe. Prior to joining JupiterResearch,
she worked as a Business Development and Product Marketing Manager for a
wireless data company, Livemind, a start-up in San Francisco.
Ask holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology as well as an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. She lives
in San Francisco.
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