Congratulations to our Chief Information Officer, Julie Simmons, who was honored today by Utah Business magazine as one of this year’s “30 Women to Watch." Our senior executive was awarded this afternoon with other Utah women business leaders in a special luncheon at the Grand America hotel in Salt Lake City.
The Utah Business magazine May 2012 issue features impressive women business leaders and women entrepreneurs in the Beehive State, and Simmons shines with the best and brightest of Utah women. We’re proud of all Simmons does to contribute – leading technology strategy for MarketStar, launching education events and programs for the Women Tech Council, and inspiring girls to be the next generation of business women.
Our CIO Beyond the Business Bio: Did You Know?
- Simmons' true passion is helping young women find careers they love. She co-founded a website called www.lookilulu.com that profiles inspiring business women.
- Simmons leads the education committee for the Women Tech Council and launched a teen tech scholarship program and WTC Student award at the university level.
- At one point while going to college, Simmons commuted 100 miles a day to her full-time secretarial job down a mountain canyon in treacherous Utah winters.
- When her daughter was young, Simmons sent postcards from international business trips to her daughter’s elementary school classroom, teaching the children about world geography and to see possibilities.
