About IPC Media - IPC Media Board
Sylvia Auton, chief executive officer, IPC Media
Sylvia was appointed CEO of IPC Media in March 2003. A consummate publishing professional, she joined IPC in 1977 as a marketer before moving rapidly through the publishing ranks to become a core member of the IPC management team. During her time with the company, Sylvia has held a number of key senior positions, and in 1998, was appointed managing director of IPC's Inspire, the UK's largest specialist publishing company. She was part of the Board team that developed the strategy and business under the Cinven-backed management buy-out from Reed Elsevier in 1998. And in October 2001, Sylvia was instrumental in the acquisition of IPC Media by the world's largest media organisation, Time Warner, for £1.15bn - then the biggest transatlantic media deal ever made. Sylvia is a director of ultimate parent company, IPC Group Limited. She is chairman of the IPC Media Pension Trustee Limited, the corporate trustee of the IPC Media Pension Scheme. She is also a member of the PPA Board. In March 2007, Sylvia was promoted to Executive Vice President of Time Inc, with the additional responsibility in the US for the Southern Progress Corporation and the business side of All You, This Old House and health.com.
Contact: 020 314 85102 or e-mail sylvia_auton@timeinc.com
Fiona Dent, managing director, IPC TX
Fiona was appointed managing director of IPC TX our market-leading TV weeklies group, in May 2007. The portfolio of titles she is responsible for includes What's on TV, www.whatsontv.co.uk, TVTimes, TV & Satellite Week, TV easy, and Soaplife. She also has responsibility for IPC Plus, the licensing and syndication business and IPC Direct, which manages subscriptions and direct marketing. Fiona has held a number of senior marketing and publishing roles since joining IPC in 1992. From 2003 to 2006, she was publishing director of Country Life and the Inspire Equestrian Group, including Horse & Hound, where she was instrumental in developing the group through launches, web initiatives and brand extensions. In January 2006 Fiona was appointed publishing director of Wallpaper* the internationally-renowned design, interiors and lifestyle magazine where she led the brand to a record performance during its 10th Anniversary year, and developed the highly successful www.wallpaper.com.
Contact: 020 314 85650 or e-mail fiona_dent @ipcmedia.com
Sylvia Evans, finance director, IPC Media
Sylvia was appointed finance director and promoted to the IPC board in January 2005, following her role as deputy finance director since 1999. Sylvia joined IPC from Reed Elsevier in 1990 as project accountant and played a pivotal role leading the central finance team since 1995. Sylvia sits on the Finance Policy Group of the Periodical Publishers Association.
Contact:020 314 85103 or e-mail sylvia_evans@ipcmedia.com
Eric Fuller, managing director, IPC Ignite
Eric was named managing director of IPC Ignite in September 2006. He oversees the IPC Ignite portfolio of men's and music magazines, Nuts, Loaded, NME and Uncut and their digital brand extensions, including the market-leading www.NME.com. Eric joined IPC in 2000 and has, at various times, held direct P&L responsibility for all the ignite! portfolio. He was launch publishing director of Nuts in 2004, the most successful men's launch for a decade. Prior to joining IPC Eric was publishing director of Dennis Publishing men's and music group, launching Maxim for Dennis in 1995, and Stuff in 1997.
Contact: 020 314 86751 or e-mail eric_fuller@ipcmedia.com
Stephen Hirst, managing director, Marketforce
Stephen was appointed to the position of managing director of Marketforce, IPC's world class newstrade sales, marketing and distribution company, in January 2006. He oversees all aspects of the distribution of IPC's extensive portfolio of magazines, alongside a wide-range of other publishing clients, including Hachette Filipacchi, Reed Business Information and Future Publishing. Stephen has held a number of senior positions within Marketforce since joining the business in 1992. Prior to taking on the role of assistant managing director in February 2005, he spent four years as Marketforce's marketing services director. Previous to this he was strategic planning manager for the business. Marketforce is the largest distributor of magazines in the UK.
Contact: 020 314 83561 or e-mail stephen_hirst@ipcmedia.com
Dee Mair, HR director, IPC Media
Dee was appointed to the IPC Media board in July 2004. She joined IPC in September 2003 as Human Resources director, leading the company's agenda to attract, retain and develop the very best talent. She is responsible for all aspects of human resources, including IPC's leading-edge Learning & Development agenda. She is also responsible for IPC's corporate communications and for IPC's facilities division and property portfolio. Dee has board responsibility for the project that will see IPC's headquarters relocate from King's Reach Tower to The Blue Fin Building on Southwark Street, SE1 in Spring 2007. Prior to joining IPC, Dee spent seven years working in a variety of senior HR roles within United Business Media, including a period as HR director for Express Newspapers. In her earlier career, Dee worked in HR in businesses as diverse as reinsurance, chartered surveying and data storage. She is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel, a director of the corporate trustee companies of the IPC Media Pension Scheme and the Time Warner Money Purchase Pension Plan, and a trustee of the Link House Magazines Limited Final Salary Scheme.
Contact: 020 314 85343 or e-mail dee_mair@ipcmedia.com
Caroline McDevitt, managing director, IPC Advertising
Caroline was named managing director of IPC Advertising in January 2006. She oversees IPC's central advertising teams, as well as chairing the IPC Advertising Executive, and leads the formulation and implementation of the company's advertising strategy. Caroline joined IPC in May 2005 as director of group advertising. She is also a director of the NRS Board and represents IPC at the PPA Marketing Committee, as well as being a member of the Women's Advertising Club (WACL). She has extensive experience across the media industry, and was chief executive of BARB between 1998 and 2004. Her career includes six years as a main board director of Westcountry Television and she has worked in various ITV companies running national sales teams and handling national and local advertising, DRTV, sponsorship and advertiser-funded programmes.
Contact: 020 314 83718 or e-mail caroline_mcdevitt@ipcmedia.com
Jackie Newcombe, managing director, IPC Southbank
Jackie took the role of managing director of IPC Southbank, the glossy women's monthlies division, in January 2006. She oversees IPC's portfolio of fashion, women's general interest and home interest magazines – including Marie Claire, Ideal Home, Homes & Gardens and Woman & Home. She is also the managing director of international design, interiors and lifestyle title, Wallpaper*. Jackie started her career in 1981 as an IPC graduate trainee and held a number of senior advertising and publishing posts, notably as publishing director of both its Women's Weekly titles and its Home Interest Group. After three years as a managing director in contract publishing, she returned to IPC in September 2003 to run Marie Claire, owned by European Magazines Ltd, the joint venture between IPC and Groupe Marie Claire.
Contact: 020 314 87651 or e-mail jackie_newcombe@ipcmedia.com
Neil Robinson, digital director, IPC Media
Neil started at IPC at 1994, working initially in circulation sales before moving into publishing, focusing on music and lifestyle brands, including NME, Loaded, Uncut and www.nme.com. In 1999 Neil was appointed commercial director of the internationally award-winning www.nme.com, overseeing its initial expansion. In 2002 he took overall responsibility for the whole IPC Ignite music portfolio as publishing director – winning the PPA Publisher of the Year award in 2004 for his work repositioning the NME brand. In 2005 Neil took up the role of publishing director at IPC TX, re-launching TV Times, one of the UK's best-loved TV weekly brands and developing IPC's recent TV web launch www.whatsontv.com.
He was named IPC Media digital director in September 2006 and most recently has overseen the growth of IPC's broader digital agenda, with new launches in the women's mass market – www.goodtoknow.co.uk, www.instyle.co.uk, and www.housetohome.co.uk. Neil is a member of AOP, representing IPC. Neil was appointed to the board in April 2007.
Contact: 020 314 85372 or e-mail neil_robinson@ipcmedia.com
Evelyn Webster, managing director, IPC Connect
Evelyn was named managing director of IPC Connect – home to Britain's best loved women's weeklies – in March 2004. The Connect portfolio includes some of the best-loved magazines in the UK – Now, Chat, Pick Me Up, Woman, Woman's Own, Woman's Weekly and Look – the UK's first glossy high street fashion and celebrity style weekly, launched in January 2007. Evelyn was promoted to the IPC board in April 2003, as managing director of IPC Inspire, with more than 50 magazine and web brands in her portfolio. She joined IPC in 1992 as a graduate trainee, working her way through circulation and marketing functions to become a publisher within the then IPC Specialist Group. During this time she was responsible for steering a number of IPC's most influential brands - including Country Life and Horse & Hound - to record profits. She became publishing director across the Country & Equestrian titles in 1999.
Contact: 020 314 86191 or e-mail evelyn_webster@ipcmedia.com
Paul Williams, managing director, IPC Inspire
Paul was named managing director of IPC Inspire, the specialist division of IPC, in July 2004. He controls the largest individual publishing business in IPC Media, with more than 50 magazine and web brands in the portfolio. Paul joined IPC in 1985, working as a sales executive on Homes & Gardens and then Woman & Home. After spells in the national press and at Emap, he returned to IPC in March 1998 to take on the role of ad director across the Inspire portfolio. In May 2000 he was promoted to the role of commercial director of the Inspire Marine division, and joined the Inspire board.
Contact: 020 314 84265 or e-mail paul_williams@ipcmedia.com
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