Julia White, Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer at SAP

Julia White has been serving as the chief marketing and solutions officer at SAP for seven months.

White is responsible for the software company’s product and industry marketing, solution management, digital and brand marketing, regional area marketing, corporate communications, industry solutions and value engineering, and government affairs, according to her LinkedIn profile.

At the same time, White serves on the company’s board of directors. Her current executive board term expires in 2024.

She joined SAP following a nearly 20-year career with Microsoft Corporation.

In her first few years with the tech company, she carried out product management, product marketing and reseller channel marketing functions. Eventually, White was promoted to senior director and was tasked with exchange server and online product management.

Her first executive position at Microsoft was general manager for technical marketing. In that role, she was in charge of Office 365, Office apps, Exchange, SharePoint, Developer and IT Pro audience marketing. She later ascended to the role of corporate vice president and led product marketing for Azure, developer tools and servers.

Before working for Microsoft, she spent three years as a product management employee at financial software company Intuit.

White earned her bachelor’s degree in communications from Stanford University before earning a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.