Stephanie is a Director of The Up Group, and leads searches globally for our corporate clients. She graduated with a Bachelor degree in Political Science from Trinity College in the US and has additional diplomas from Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and Middlebury College in the US. Stephanie has dual American and French citizenship, is a native English, French and Spanish speaker and is proficient in Russian. Stephanie’s early career was spent working for online companies: Excite, AOL and Amazon. At Excite, she managed large online sponsorship accounts throughout Europe. As Senior Business Development Manager for AOL Europe, she secured online partnerships with traditional and online companies. While with Amazon, Stephanie managed the UK Online Marketing Group and later assumed responsibility for the Online Account Management Team of Amazon UK, France, and Germany. Stephanie’s search experience was gained with Korn/Ferry International, where she was a Senior Associate in the European Global Technology Markets Practice. Based initially in the firms Moscow office, she worked on assignments in a variety of industries. She later relocated to the London office as a member of the Technology Practice, focused largely on the Internet industry. Stephanie then became a Director with CT Partners, a global executive search firm, as a member of the firm’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications Practice. She has worked with corporate as well as start-up clients, identifying leadership to fill CEO, CFO, COO, and other general management roles across the UK, Europe and USA.