JULIAN BOULDING – BIO – November 2024.
Julian is the Founder and owner of thenetworkone, the world’s largest network of independent Marketing and Communications agencies, working with more than 1500 creative, media, PR and digital agencies in 117 countries, worldwide.
Before founding thenetworkone in 2005, he spent 20 years working for traditional advertising and communications agencies, including living and working in London, Amsterdam, Sao Paulo and New York, creating and managing communications campaigns for international companies like Procter & Gamble, M&M Mars, General Motors, Philips, Avon and Continental Airlines.
In 2017 he became a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Marketors, progressing over eight eventful years to Liveryman, Court Assistant, Treasurer and Warden until his election as Master of the Company, with effect from January 2025.
Julian has a Master’s degree in English literature from Cambridge University. He is a Fellow and former Director of the Marketing Society, and through thenetworkone he is a member of UKAEG, the UK Advertising Export Group; and ICCO, the International Communications Consultancy Organisation – all not-for-profit organisations. He served for eight years as a Community Governor for an inner-city primary school, specialised in working with children with special educational needs.
Outside professional life, he enjoys hill-walking, restoring old houses, travel, history, art, music and the inter-relationship between languages and cultures; and most of all relaxing and discovering new experiences with his wife Anna, their daughters Lucy and Emma and grandchildren Clara, Eloise and Daphne.