About IPC Media - IPC Media Board
Sylvia Auton, Chairman, IPC Media
A consummate publishing professional, Sylvia 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 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 was appointed Chief Executive of IPC Media in 2003 and in March 2007, was appointed Executive Vice President of Time Inc. In October 2008 she was given responsibility for its Lifestyle division, including Real Simple, Southern Living, Cooking Light, Sunset, Health, Coastal Living, This Old House, All You and Southern Accents. As Chairman of IPC Media, Sylvia is also a Director of ultimate parent company, IPC Group Limited and is Chairman of the IPC Media Pension Trustee Limited, the corporate trustee of the IPC Media Pension Scheme.
Contact: 020 314 85102 or e-mail sylvia_auton@timeinc.com
Evelyn Webster, Chief Executive, IPC Media
Evelyn joined IPC in 1992 as a graduate trainee, working her way through circulation and marketing functions to become a Publisher within IPC Inspire, overseeing brands including Country Life, Horse & Hound and Shooting Times. 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 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 most well-known media brands in the UK – Now, Chat, Woman, Woman's Own, and Woman's Weekly. During her tenure she launched three of the most successful new brands of the past decade: Look – the UK's first glossy high street fashion and celebrity style weekly, Pick Me Up – which reinvigorated the real life sector, and www.goodtoknow.co.uk – the destination for mainstream women online. Evelyn became Chief Executive of IPC Media in January 2009, overseeing all aspects of the business – and with direct responsibility for IPC Advertising.
Contact: 020 314 85102 or e-mail evelyn_webster@ipcmedia.com
Fiona Dent, Managing Director, IPC Connect
Fiona was appointed Managing Director of IPC Connect in February 2009. The Connect portfolio contains some of the most famous media brands in the UK, including Look, Now, Chat, Pick Me Up, Woman, Woman's Own, Woman's Weekly and goodtoknow.co.uk. She also has responsibility for IPC Direct, which manages subscriptions and direct marketing. Fiona was promoted to the board in May 2007, as Managing Director of IPC TX, our market-leading TV weeklies group. Since joining IPC in 1992, Fiona has held a number of senior marketing and publishing roles. From 2003 to 2006, she was Publishing Director of Country Life and Horse & Hound. 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. Most recently, Eric has overseen the acquisition of Mousebreaker, the UK's leading free-to-play casual gaming website. 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. 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, and a Director of the corporate trustee companies of the IPC Media Pension Scheme and the Time Warner Money Purchase Pension Plan.
Contact: 020 314 85340 or e-mail dee_mair@ipcmedia.com
Charlie Meredith, Managing Director, IPC TX
Charlie was appointed Managing Director of IPC TX, our market-leading TV weeklies group, in February 2009. The portfolio he is responsible for includes the UK's favourite TV magazine What's on TV, www.whatsontv.co.uk, TV Times, TV & Satellite Week, TV easy and Soaplife. He also has responsibility for IPC Plus, IPC Media's licensing and syndication business. Since Charlie joined IPC TX soon after the launch of What's on TV in 1992, he has held a number of senior editorial and then publishing roles, including business director across the portfolio. Named publishing director of What's on TV in 2004, he has developed one of the biggest brands in UK publishing into the digital space with the launch of the rapidly growing popular TV site www.whatsontv.co.uk. Charlie also was the publishing director behind the launch of TV easy, the UK's first compact TV weekly, in 2005.
Contact: 020 314 85710 or e-mail charlie_meredith@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
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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