Julie Lisabeth Gray

General Manager, WSET III, CSW

Julie has been a member of the Field & Main team for 7 years. She assumed the role of General Manager in 2020 after first gaining operational experience as a server, bartender, bar manager, and marketing manager. 

From a young age Julie was drawn to the hospitality industry, working her way through high school and college in various restaurant and catering roles in New York and Boston. After school, she was meeting planner in Washington, DC, where she planned and executed high level advisory meetings around the country for some of the world’s top doctors. 

In 2008, Julie opened a professional organizing business which quickly evolved into an executive coaching practice for more than a decade. Here she specialized in holistic time management, stress reduction, and procrastination strategies working with hundreds of executives and teens. Julie is a professional certified coach through the International Coach Federation, a coach trainer, speaker, and writer. 

Since taking on the General Manager position, Julie played an immediate and integral role in F&M’s successful navigation of the Covid 19 pandemic, leveraging her diverse skills to operationalize and develop new business ideas always with the mission of utilizing food and drink to cultivate and support community. 

Today she continues to impact day-to-day operations via service preparation, staff management and development, cocktail creation and bar management, system design and implementation and the co-planning and execution of long-term growth strategies. 

In addition to her specific knowledge and experience at F&M, Julie brings a wealth of life experience, intelligence, capability and willingness that makes her highly effective as the GM of F&M. 

Julie holds a BBA in Management Sciences with a minor in Psychology from St. Bonaventure University in New York. She continues her professional development through wine and spirits education and holistic leadership training. In her spare time, she loves traveling, swimming, walking in the woods, and writing.