Julie Jacobs
As Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Julie Jacobs is responsible for all legal, regulatory, compliance and public policy matters for AOL. Julie also oversees AOL’s Corporate Development function encompassing mergers, acquisitions, investments and Business Development function encompassing strategic partnerships and other commercial transactions as well as the Corporate Services function, which includes AOL’s facilities and operations. In addition, Julie serves as Corporate Secretary to AOL’s Board of Directors. In this role, she is responsible for advising the Board of Directors and executive management on corporate governance matters and strategic transactions.
Julie was the principal architect of the 2012 patent transaction with Microsoft generating more than $1 billion in value. In addition, she led AOL through its 2009 spin-off from Time Warner.
Prior to becoming General Counsel, she served as Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at AOL. Julie joined AOL in 2000 from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP, where her practice focused on a wide variety of international development and telecommunications projects.
Julie was the subject of a feature article in Super Lawyers Business Edition 2011. Julie was also one of twenty women executives selected nationally to attend the 2008 DirectWomen Board Institute and was selected by the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel as Deal Maker of the Year in 2007.
Julie graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center where she was an editor of The Georgetown Law Journal and holds a bachelor’s of science degree in Finance from the University of Colorado Boulder.
