Board & Strategic Advisor | AI & Agentic Transformation
Helping leaders navigate growth, monetization and AI-driven change.
I advise boards, founders and leadership teams at the intersection of AI, advertising and technology. I bring 20 years of experience at Microsoft, combined with hands-on work in AI and agentic systems, to help businesses understand what is changing, identify what matters commercially and decide where to act.
Senior commercial leadership across technology, advertising and international markets.
Experience shaped by
Mastercard
Xandr
AI, Growth & Transformation
Turning AI-driven change into commercial decisions that matter.
01 / Startups & Growth
AI & AdTech Startup Advisory
You have a promising product but need a clearer path to market, monetization and growth. I help founders sharpen their positioning and make the commercial decisions needed to scale.
Positioning, value proposition & go-to-market
Growth, monetization & pricing
Enterprise sales & partnerships
AI visibility & discoverability
Agentic advertising & emerging ecosystems
Founder Advisory · Growth & Monetization Reviews · Go-to-Market Support
02 / Business Transformation
AI & Agentic Transformation
AI is changing your industry, but where should you focus? I help leadership teams identify relevant opportunities, prioritize investments and define a practical strategic direction.
Your teams are exploring AI, but need to turn curiosity into practical application. I help them understand the technology, identify relevant use cases and build confidence using it at work.
English | Español | Português
Generative AI fundamentals & prompting
Productivity & knowledge work
Practical AI workflows
AI agents & business implications
Opportunities, limitations & responsible adoption
Executive Sessions · Team Workshops · Customized Corporate Training
Navigating an AI, growth or monetization decision?
Let's talk about what is changing and where you should focus.
After a career leading sales, strategy, partnerships and transformation across technology and advertising, I bring that operator perspective into the boardroom. I help boards and CEOs ask sharper questions, evaluate strategic tradeoffs and make better decisions around growth, monetization, go-to-market and market change.
01
Growth Strategy
Evaluating where sustainable growth should come from and which strategic bets deserve investment.
02
Monetization
Assessing revenue models, pricing, partnerships and the quality of growth.
03
Go-to-Market
Connecting market opportunity, customer value and commercial execution.
04
AI & Market Transformation
Understanding how AI and agentic systems may change customers, competition and business models.
Selected Engagements
Advising companies at different stages of AI-driven change.
“Julia brings a strong commercial perspective to the challenges of building and scaling an AI startup. She has helped us sharpen our positioning, think through our go-to-market strategy, and identify opportunities for growth.”
Vikas Malik, CEO & Founder, EvidentlyAEO
AI & Agentic Transformation
“Julia combines deep AdTech experience with a strong understanding of AI and agentic advertising. Her strategic perspective has helped us challenge assumptions, identify opportunities, and navigate an evolving advertising landscape with greater clarity and confidence.”
Agustin Nolte, Co-Founder, Strike Media
AI Training
“Julia has a great ability to make AI accessible and relevant to business teams. Her training helped us connect emerging AI capabilities with practical applications in our work. She brings real business experience to the conversation.”
Carolina Mandil, eGLOW CEO & Founder
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AI & Agentic Credentials
Staying close to the technologies reshaping business.
2025
MIT xPRO
AI Strategy and Leadership Program: Thriving in the New World of AI
01 / Strategy & Leadership
2026
MIT Professional Education
Applied Agentic AI for Organizational Transformation
02 / Organizational Transformation
2026
AgenticAdvertising.org
AdCP Practitioner
Hands-on practitioner work building an AdCP seller agent using emerging agentic advertising infrastructure.
03 / Advertising Innovation
About Julia
Enterprise experience. Emerging technology.
Julia Dubois is a senior commercial and technology executive with two decades at Microsoft and experience across Mastercard, AppNexus/Xandr and NCR. Her career has focused on commercial leadership, growth, partnerships and business transformation across technology, advertising and international markets.
Today she advises boards, founders and leadership teams navigating growth, monetization and AI-driven change, combining senior operator experience with current hands-on work in AI and agentic systems.
Commercial Strategy + AI
Advertising + Agentic Transformation
U.S. + International Perspective
Strategic Judgment + Hands-On AI Fluency
“The value of an advisor isn't having all the answers. It's helping leadership teams ask better questions, recognize what is changing, and make better decisions.”
Julia Dubois
Board & Strategic Advisor
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What are you navigating?
If you're evaluating how AI is changing your business, building an AI or AdTech company, navigating a growth or monetization decision, or looking for practical AI training for your team, let's start a conversation.