# Julie O’Brien

> Julie O’Brien is Feedzai’s chief marketing officer, a Boston-area technology executive whose career has moved from media software and internet infrastructure through collaboration, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and financial crime prevention. Across more than 25 years, she has built a specialty in making technical products understandable, connecting brand work to measurable demand, and organizing teams around a shared customer story.

- **Role:** Chief Marketing Officer at Feedzai
- **Organizations:** Feedzai, Dazz, AttackIQ, Nutanix, Good Technology, Box, Cisco, SightPath, Avid Technology, Workforce Opportunity Services, Influitive
- **Education:** BA/MBA in marketing and finance, Bentley University
- **Known for:** Led brand and growth strategies across companies that experienced two acquisitions and an IPO., At Nutanix, led global brand and demand strategy during a period when the customer base grew from 1,000 to 15,000 in five years., Built and led AttackIQ’s global marketing organization.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2000** — Worked at Avid Technology and then SightPath, an internet content-delivery company.
- **2000** — SightPath was acquired by Cisco; O’Brien went on to spend roughly 12 years in Cisco marketing roles spanning market development, product, solutions and go-to-market work.
- **2012** — Joined Box in an industry-solutions marketing role.
- **2013** — Became vice president of corporate marketing at Good Technology.
- **2015** — Joined Nutanix, eventually serving as senior vice president of corporate marketing and leading global brand and demand strategy through the company’s 2016 IPO.
- **2020** — Joined AttackIQ as chief marketing officer, leading global brand strategy and demand for its security-optimization platform.
- **2022** — Appointed chief marketing officer of cloud-security-remediation startup Dazz.
- **2024** — Dazz was acquired by Wiz in December.
- **2025** — Appointed chief marketing officer of Feedzai, officially announced March 26.

## Achievements

- Led brand and growth strategies across companies that experienced two acquisitions and an IPO.
- At Nutanix, led global brand and demand strategy during a period when the customer base grew from 1,000 to 15,000 in five years.
- Built and led AttackIQ’s global marketing organization.
- Led a roughly 200-person global marketing organization at Nutanix and aligned a major campaign around three sales plays.
- Served on the advisory board of Workforce Opportunity Services and advised Influitive.
- Has spoken at women’s leadership and technology events and mentors marketing leaders.

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Feedzai announced O’Brien as chief marketing officer to help scale its next phase of global growth.
- **2025-03** — On joining Feedzai, she highlighted the collision of massive consumer-data volumes, cloud migration and AI-powered intelligence and security in financial services.

## Links

- Website: https://www.feedzai.com/leadership/julie-obrien/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/obrienjuliea
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/julieaobrien

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Last updated: 2026-09-05