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Julie is the current Managing Director at Capellas Partners. She helps companies develop and test actionable plans for their target markets including product roadmaps, baseline operations and go-to-market strategies and translate those into simple messages and effective communication.

Julie is a 20-year advertising and retail professional.  With an extensive agency background, Julie has a depth of knowledge around traditional, digital and social marketing as well as public relations, business-to-business and retail sales. She has been honored by Walmart and Costco as a Supplier of the Year, as well as a finalist in the Path to Purchase Design of the Times and Effie awards.

Julie graduated from American University with a B.A. and M.A. in Public Communications.

Michael D. Solomon began his career in Columbus, Ohio where he worked with Apple Computer to set up their original dealer network when they were a $100 million company until 1985, then moved to Seattle where he ran sales and marketing for Aldus Corp, which created Desktop Publishing, then moved to California in 1990 and worked in Silicon Valley as an executive, Venture Capitalist, entrepreneur, Board member and advisor ever since. He recently served as the Board Chairman of Within 3 Corporation, a Cleveland-based medical industry software company from 2010 to its successful take out financing with Insight Partners, a leading private equity firm in 2020. Michael is currently involved in three exciting new ventures in California and Colorado. He recently graduated from the Academy of Intuition Medicine with a Masters of Intuition Medicine Degree. Michael was a member of the Kent State Board of Trustees from 2011 to 2020, the Foundation Board from 2004 to 2011 and endowed the Michael D. Solomon Entrepreneurial Speaker Series in 2002, the Jerry M. Lewis speaker series in 2022, and the Alan Canfora scholarship program in Activism in 2021. He graduated from ºÚÁÏÍø with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1974.