About Julien's Auctions

With expertise specializing in entertainment memorabilia and high profile estate auctions, Julien's has quickly established itself as the premier auction house in high-end celebrity estate and entertainment auctions. Julien's Auctions presents exciting, professionally managed and extremely successful auctions with full color high quality auction catalogs unlike any other auction company. Previous auctions include the collections of U2, Cher, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, Debbie Reynolds, the estates of Marilyn Monroe, Bob Hope, Mary Pickford, and many more.

Julien's Auctions has conducted co-branded auctions with Sotheby's and Christie's in addition to partnering with the most recognized and respected brands in the world. In 2004 Julien's Auctions partnered with Christie's auction house to create one of the most successful multi-consignor sales of entertainment memorabilia ever offered with a sale total of more than 2.1 million dollars. In the fall of 2006 Julien's Auctions partnered with Sotheby's auction house to conduct property from the life and career of Cher with a sale total of over 3.5 million dollars. Julien's Auctions now includes the sale of jewelry, fine and decorative arts and other high end property in additional to memorabilia offering a full service to our celebrity clients. Julien's Auctions has conducted multiple sales with Gibson Guitar establishing the company as the premier venue for guitars and Rock “N” Roll ephemera. In the spring of 2007 Julien's conducted the largest multi-consignor sale to date for Rock “N” Roll memorabilia. The total sale of 2.4 million dollars featured property consigned by The Edge and other band members of U2. One of the many highlights in the sale was the Jimi Hendrix' studio guitar for $480,000.

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Julien's Auctions continues to present exciting televised auctions developing new markets around the world. Highlights tour Japan, London, Ireland, New York, Los Angeles, Santiago and many more cities exposing the collections being offered to a global platform. Julien's experience and expertise in this field has established the company as the worldwide leader and premiere venue for the sale of high end entertainment property and celebrity estates.

Company Bios

Darren Julien – President and CEO

Darren Julien is the founder of Julien's Auctions. A third generation entrepreneur, Darren has been heavily involved in auctions for all of his adult life. Darren's foundation in the auction world and his special talent for creating unique marketing events led to the creation of Julien's Auctions. Julien's has dominated the entertainment memorabilia market on its own and in collaboration with both Christie's and Sotheby's since its inception. Darren has successfully orchestrated major marketing campaigns for sales, routinely securing placement with The Associated Press, Reuters, The Today Show, Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, BBC and many other high profile news outlets. Darren is a graduate of Reppert School of Auctioneering which was established in 1921 where he earned a Reppert Diploma, the sign of excellence in the field of auctioneering. It is his experience, expertise and enthusiasm that Darren brings to each sale, making Julien's Auctions a market leader.

Martin J. Nolan – Executive Director

Martin J. Nolan was born and raised in Ireland. He has an extensive financial background having worked in investment banking on Wall Street for more than 14 years. He has held high level investment positions with Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan Chase. Martin is a graduate of Reppert School of Auctioneering which was established in 1921 where he earned a Reppert Diploma, the sign of excellence in the field of auctioneering. He is the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director for Julien's Auctions. This responsibility, combined with his entrepreneurial background, has helped develop a long term business and marketing plan that enhances Julien's Auctions with an advantage over other auction houses. One of Martin's focuses is to develop high quality corporate sponsorships providing a unique opportunity for corporate entities to invest their marketing dollars with a more effective media focused form of advertising. Martin's efforts are also concentrated on creating and developing future clients for Julien's Auctions globally. He is currently focusing on developing new clients in Ireland, India, China and Japan, countries that are achieving phenomenal growth. Martin's greatest passion is to create opportunities for charitable organizations to raise much needed funds through his philanthropic work. This has become his primary goal with Julien's Auctions, enabling those in need to benefit from the high profile celebrity charity auctions that we conduct. The auctions not only raise much needed funds for charitable organizations but they also raise the awareness of the important work of the charities.

Megan Mahn, Property Specialist

A passionate researcher, Megan heads the cataloging department at Julien's Auctions. Megan is a Minneapolis native and holds a degree in art history for the University of Minnesota. She brings to Julien's a varied background in Art Education, Event Planning, Public Relations and Marketing. Megan is a graduate of the Reppert School of Auctioneering and a licensed auctioneer in the State of Minnesota.

Shaan Kokin, Creative Director

Shaan Kokin was born and raised in Southern California. From an early age he had an interest in photography when his father bought him an instant Polaroid camera. Shaan graduated from Windward High School and studied history at Clark University. After extensive traveling, he decided he wanted to have a career based on creativity. So he enrolled and graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California where he received a B.A. in Advertising Photography. After graduation he worked as a full time in-house photographer for Butterfields auction house. Shaan joined Julien's Auctions as Creative Director having worked as a sales representative for Calumet Photographics.

Rebecca Markman - Fine and Decorative Art Specialist and Appraiser - Consultant

Rebecca Markman is a Certified Member of the International Society of Appraisers and an Accredited Member of the American Society of Appraisers. She has earned degrees at the University of California, Berkeley (B.A., Art History) and Irvine (Certificate in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Arts), and California State University, San Jose (M.A., Library Science). Rebecca previously worked at Christie's auction house, the Wildenstein Gallery in New York and at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. She currently consults with Julien's Auctions on all fine and decorative art projects including cataloging and appraising while running her own appraisal firm.

Hillary Ripps, Office Administrator

Hillary inherited her interest in the film industry from her father, who worked for MGM for over 40 years beginning in 1929. Hillary has worked with many well known film directors, producers and writers. She also partnered in a very successful independent production company for over 20 years, producing the films as well as running the office and handling business affairs. It was during this period that she received an Academy Award nomination and became a member of the Academy, where she serves on several Executive Committees. In her spare time, Hillary is puppy-raising Edison, a yellow Labrador Retriever, for Guide Dogs of America, as well as doing volunteer work at the Hollywood Ronald McDonald House. She is delighted to have become a member of Julien's Auctions staff as the Office Administrator which enables her to assist in the many facets of setting up the auctions.

Adam Grant, Special Projects Administrator

Adam Grant was born and raised in Los Angeles, California where his interests in celebrity affairs peaked at an early age. Shortly after his high school studies he attended The University of San Francisco receiving his bachelor's degree in Political Science. After graduation, Adam moved to Israel to join a special combat unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. There he served much of his time in war torn Gaza until returning home in 2010. Soon after his return Adam decided to pursue his interest and his desire to work with historic timepieces and priceless memorabilia, and this led him to Julien's Auctions. Adam plays an important role as part of the Julien's team with responsibility for organizing and administrating high profile auctions, exhibitions and other celebrity related events. Adam is ambitious to grow the company and he hopes that his desire and knowledge in sports will one day lead to an expansion of sports auctions here at Julien's Auctions.

Alex Saenz, Warehouse Manager

Alex Saenz joined the Julien's Staff in September 2008 under the title of Warehouse Manager. Months prior, Alex graduated from the University of Southern California with a bachelor's degree in International Relations. He has lived in Los Angeles since beginning college in 2004. Alex was raised in North Potomac, MD, where his family still resides. He is the oldest of three children. His sister Taylor, and brother, Steven both attend high school in the Washington D.C. area.

Caroline Strumph, Client Services

Caroline Strumph joined the Julien's Staff in June 2010 after graduating from Kenyon College with a Bachelor's of Arts in Art History and a minor in Studio art. During her undergraduate studies, Caroline spent a semester studying art and art history in Florence, Italy, where her travels throughout Europe solidified her love of art and culture. Caroline was raised in Durham, North Carolina, and her family now resides at Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia. Caroline comes to Julien's with previous experience in client services and auction estimates with Christies, and is excited to continue this work at Julien's.