GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - USA
Julie Gruber of Gap Inc
After a number of years as an associate at erstwhile San Francisco firm Bronson Bronson & McKinnon, Julie Gruber joined Gap in 1998 and steadily rose up the ranks to assume her current role as the clothing company’s global general counsel. Gruber’s wide-ranging and ever-growing list of responsibilities includes leadership of Gap’s legal, compliance, loss prevention, corporate administration and intellectual property efforts.
Gruber’s role also sees her face the added challenge of navigating Gap’s proposed slit into two independent public businesses. The complex project, which will see the company spin-off its Old Navy division and house Gap and a number of other legacy brands in a separate company, will call on all of Gruber’s legal savvy and her two decades of institutional knowledge of the business.