As the vice president of marketing and customer support for SouthernLINC Wireless, a Southern Company, Julie Pigott leads all advertising, media relations, customer communications, marketing services and customer retention activities. In addition, she oversees the call center, activations group, dedicated customer support and technical customer support teams.

She was named vice president of marketing in 1999 and assumed responsibility for the customer support organization in December 2004.

Prior to the commercial launch of SouthernLINC Wireless, Pigott was recruited to Atlanta in 1994 to develop all marketing strategies as director of marketing for the carrier. Such strategies included naming the product and developing initial marketing, advertising, pricing and promotional activities for the company.

Before joining Southern Company, Pigott was responsible for all marketing activities in Illinois for Ameritech Cellular, where she worked for more than 10 years.

Pigott holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science and economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a 2006 Women of the Year in Technology Awards nominee and has been featured in Wireless Week magazine and Women in Wireless as a person to watch.