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Julia Margaret Vahry 11 February 1986 is a New Zealand based entrepreneur.

She is the Founder and Managing Director of Vahry - an umbrella company operating as a life and health insurance brokerage and recently a start-up film and television company to showcase New Zealand tourism and talent to support and uplift the community as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Julia partnered with the New Zealand Blood Service during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, to encourage blood and plasma donors in her community which subsequently awarded her with a Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Local Hero Medal.

In 2021 she was named by Insurance Business New Zealander as Young Gun - displaying innovation as a one to watch in the insurance industry.

Born in Auckland, New Zealand to Paul Haswell Vahry (born 1952) and Jennifer Margaret Vahry (nee Smith) (born 1954) who was one of the first women to complete Outward Bound

Paul Haswell Vahry was the son of Douglas Haswell Vahry (born 1916) and Patricia Helen Vahry (nee Dougall) granddaughter of John Joseph Dougall, the Mayor of Christchurch between 1911-1912 who purchased The Kate Sheppard House from Kate Sheppard in 1902.