Julia Austin

Julia Austin is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship where she currently teaches Startup Operations. Julia is also a certified Executive Coach, board member, startup advisor and angel investor as well as the founder of Good For Her, a non-profit community for women founders that fosters their growth as they navigate their entrepreneurial journeys.

Prior to her current endeavors, Julia was the CTO at DigitalOcean, VP of Innovation for VMware, Inc., the VP of Engineering at Akamai Technologies and has held technical management and consulting positions at several other startups and mature companies. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts and a Master of Science in Management Information Systems from Boston University.

## Education

• MS Boston University (1991 — 1992)
• BA University of Massachusetts (1985.01 — 1989.06)
• Framingham High

Companies

• Senior Lecturer Harvard Business School (2021)
• Board Member hackNY.org (2019)
• Founder Good For Her (2015)
• Executive Coach Self-employed (2013)
• Advisor & Investor Various (2011)
• Executive Fellow Harvard Business School (2020 — 2021)
• Senior Lecturer Harvard Business School (2016 — 2020)
• CTO & Advisor DigitalOcean (2016 — 2017)
• Executive In Residence Harvard Business School (2015 — 2015)

Skills

• CRM
• Web Design
• Business Operations