Julian Henry is a marketing executive based in London and Los Angeles. He has worked in PR and journalism since the 1980s. He founded the agency Henry's House in the 1990s and was appointed Head of Communication for Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment in 2006.
Henry is the son of Brian Henry, a well-known figure in the early days of independent TV in London, and Elizabeth Craig, journalist and 1930s child star of various advertising campaigns. She was photographed by Dorothy Wilding for the Daily Express and other newspapers.
He is a great-nephew of Elizabeth Craig MBE, the best-known Scottish cook of the 20th century, and a renowned journalist. She wrote 40 cookery books, and contributed to many magazines and newspapers. She appeared on the 'over 90s' show on BBC TV Parkinson in 1978 aged 95 alongside Rt Honourable Manny Shinwell MP and the playwright Ben Travers CBE.
Julian Henry is great-nephew of Arthur Mann, war correspondent and reporter for the Washington Post, New York Times and the radio broadcaster the Mutual Broadcasting Company. Mann was one of the few reporters to publish reports from both WW1 and WW2 from bases in Europe, a contemporary of Edward Murrow and Richard Dimbleby. Mann became well known across America during the 1940s through his weekly reports from the London Blitz.
He is the brother of copywriter Susie Henry, D&AD Gold Award winner, creator of the slogan "We Won't Make A Drama Out of a Crisis" and founder of advertising agency Waldron Allen Henry & Thompson. He has two other sisters, Louise and Deborah, who is his twin.
Julian Henry lives in London and Oxford and has two children: George (born 1997) and Harriet (born 1999).