Julie Gilley, Senior Financial Analyst of the Entrepreneurial Accelerator Program (EAP), a division of the BRF, provides services to high-growth entrepreneurs willing to locate to North Louisiana to spark economic development.
Julie has over 18 years of experience in corporate finance, financial markets, government contracts and consulting. She has a proven record of producing high-quality deliverables in the areas of Program and Project Management, Business Process Transformation, Organizational Change Management (OCM), Six Sigma/Lean, financial modeling and business case/plan development while successfully leading diverse teams. As the Program Director for a Fortune 500 Company and leader in business security, she successfully led a team of over 125 to plan for and design a multi-million-dollar ERP implementation. As a Senior Consultant for a global consulting firm she successfully led a team to re-engineer a large bank holding company’s close process and helped build a solution to report its average daily balance to the Federal Reserve. Recently, as part of a public/private partnership between the City of Shreveport, the BRF, and a private start up, she vetted and brought an aquarium to downtown Shreveport.
Julie has gained her experience around the country in Washington, D.C., New York City, Indianapolis, Boca Raton and North Louisiana. She received a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Louisiana State University A&M and a Master of Business from Louisiana State University Shreveport.