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Stevie graduated in Law and spent four years in marketing, and two years launching TVam with the 'famous five' before starting a 16-year career in advertising agency management. From June 2006 to June 2011 she was CEO of Future plc, one of the few women running fully listed public companies.
Future produces 150 consumer magazines, apps, websites and events ranging from Total Film and Classic Rock to TechRadar and Guitar World 'Lick of the Day' and is both the largest exporter and the largest licensor of magazines from the UK. She is a Fellow of both the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and of the Marketing Society; and is a past president and an honorary member of the Women's Advertising Club.
In 2008 she became the first externally appointed Chairman of BBC Children in Need and has overseen a complete overhaul of both grant-making and fundraising at the charity.