About IPC Media - IPC Media Board
Sylvia Auton, Chairman and CEO, 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. In 1998, Sylvia was appointed managing director of IPC's Inspire, then 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. From October 2008 to December 2010, Sylvia was responsible for Time Inc.'s Lifestyle division, including Real Simple, Southern Living, Cooking Light, Sunset, Health, Coastal Living, This Old House and All You. During this time, Sylvia remained Chairman of IPC Media and was re-appointed as CEO in January 2011. She is also a director of ultimate parent company, IPC Group Limited and is a trustee of the charity Target Ovarian Cancer.
Contact: 020 314 85102 or e-mail sylvia_auton@ipcmedia.com
Fiona Dent, managing director, IPC Connect
Fiona is managing director of IPC Connect, the mass market women's division of IPC Media. The Connect portfolio contains some of the most famous media brands in the UK, including Look, Now, Chat, Woman, www.goodtoknow.co.uk, What's on TV, TV Times and TV & Satellite Week. Fiona joined IPC in 1992, and 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. Fiona was promoted to the board in May 2007, as managing director of IPC TX, IPC's market-leading TV weeklies group, and was named managing director of IPC Connect in February 2009. In January 2010, IPC Media restructured, with Fiona taking responsibility for an expanded Connect portfolio, including the TV weeklies brands.
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
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.
Contact: 020 314 85340 or e-mail dee_mair@ipcmedia.com
Charlie Meredith, managing director, IPC Advertising
Charlie is managing director of IPC Advertising and oversees all IPC's central advertising and divisional trading teams. Charlie was previously managing director of Central Operations where he was responsible for the majority of central operations including IPC Direct, the direct marketing division; IPC Plus, the syndication and licensing division; Production; and Property/Facilities. Charlie was appointed to the IPC Media board in February 2009 as managing director of our market-leading TV entertainment brands. Since Charlie joined IPC 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 TV entertainment brands portfolio. Named publishing director of What's on TV in 2004, he 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 also the publishing director behind the launch of TV easy, the UK's first compact TV weekly, in 2005.
Contact: 020 314 86751 or e-mail charlie_meredith@ipcmedia.com
Jackie Newcombe, managing director, IPC Southbank
Jackie took the role of managing director of IPC Southbank, the upmarket women's division, in January 2006. She oversees IPC's portfolio of fashion and women's lifestyle 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 leaving IPC and working for three years in contract publishing as a managing director, she returned to the company 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 is managing director of IPC Inspire, the men's division of IPC Media. He controls the largest individual publishing business in IPC Media, with more than 30 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. Paul was named managing director of IPC Inspire in July 2004. The portfolio of specialist leisure brands expanded in January 2010 to include NME, Nuts, Uncut and Mousebreaker.
Contact: 020 314 84265 or e-mail paul_williams@ipcmedia.com
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