ABOUT

Yuli Ziv is an entrepreneur and online media expert with a track record of 10+ years, who is revolutionizing the fashion industry.

Yuli is the Founder & CEO of Style Coalition, a network of independent online publishers and bloggers in the fashion vertical. Style Coalition is responsible for the creation of the first of its kind Fashion 2.0 Social Media Awards celebrating the most innovative fashion brands, Inside The Tents, the first live portal aggregating the blogosphere coverage of NY Fashion Week, as well as for various innovative social media campaigns for clients such as JCPenney, Avelle and Century21 department stores.

Yuli is also a co-founder and Editor-In-Chief of My It Things, a leading user generated fashion magazine and community launched in early 2007 and named by About.com one of the 7 essential social shopping websites.

Yuli is an avid speaker on the topic of social media as it relates to the fashion industry. She spoke and moderated panels at numerous conferences including Social Media Week, 140 Characters Conference, Early Stage East, IFB Evolving Influence, Nolcha Retail Conference and is often invited as a guest speaker at Fashion Institute of Technology and LIM college. She also organizes and leads the monthly Fashion 2.0 discussion panels and networking event series in NYC, bringing together fashion and technology worlds. The group has more than 1,000 active members who gather monthly to network and hear from the industry leaders, including executives from Bluefly, Tory Burch, Lacoste, Gilt and leading VCs in the space.

She blogs about the intersection of fashion and technology on her business blog at YuliZiv.com, and has been featured numerous times at major mainstream publications, including the New York Times, NY Observer, Women’s Wear Daily, Associated Press, Forbes, Huffington Post and Business Week. Her daily fashion blog on MyItThings.com/Yuli and various web video shows attracts thousands of readers and viewers daily.

Prior to founding her own ventures, Yuli served as a Creative Director at 360i, where she worked on online campaigns for clients such as Fine Living Channel, NBC, Comedy Central, Saks Fifth Avenue and National Geographic. Prior to that for more than 6 years she developed interactive online strategies as a Creative Director at Hotbar advertising network.

An accomplished artist, since 1999 she exhibited her interactive computer based art projects in USA, Thailand, Israel, Brazil, Sweden, Italy, Russia and Spain. She holds BA in Design of Visual Communications from Tel-Aviv University and MFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts New York, for which she also received a prestigious Paula Rhodes award.

She speaks fluently 3 languages - Russian, Hebrew and English, and is a passionate Kundalini yoga practitioner.


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SHORT BIO:

Yuli Ziv is the Founder & CEO of Style Coalition, a network of more than 50 independent online publishers in the fashion vertical. She is also a co-founder and Editor-In-Chief of My It Things, leading user generated fashion magazine and community launched in early 2007 and named by About.com one of the 7 essential social shopping websites. She organizes and leads the Fashion 2.0 discussion panels and networking event series in NYC, bringing together more than 1,000 members innovating the fashion and technology worlds. Yuli is an avid speaker on the topic of social media and technology featured on the panels at Social Media Week, 140 Conference, Early Stage East, Nolcha Retail Conference, IFB Evolving Influence, and is often invited as a guest speaker at Fashion Institute of Technology and LIM college. She has been quoted by WWD, Forbes, Business Week, AP and featured in The New York Times and NY Observer. Website: http://yuliziv.com, twitter: @yuliz