As Vice President, Custom Solutions for IDC Canada, Julie Tiley leads IDC's custom solutions team. IDC’s customer solutions team develops and delivers programs designed around your specific business goals using a foundation of research and insights across technologies, geographies, and industries as well as expertise across practice areas that span strategy, sales and marketing, and business measurement and management.

Prior to her role in custom solutions, Julie was part of the Global Software Business Strategy team.  She developed extensive experience executing primary and secondary market research, including competitive analysis, survey and interview-based research, and the creation of market models. As director of IDC's Global Software Alliance Leadership Council, her research focused on alliance trends, best practices and benchmarking. 

Prior to joining IDC in 2001, Julie was part of the Asia Pacific, Canada and Latin America product development team and managed the customized information and consulting solutions team at Dun & Bradstreet. Julie Tiley studied economics at the University of Waterloo, and holds a Masters in Business Economics from the Wilfrid Laurier University.