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Sophia Stuart
Executive Director, Mobile, Hearst Digital Media Group
Sophia Stuart joined Hearst Magazines Digital Media group in June 2006 and was promoted to Executive Director in September 2008. She is responsible for building mobile content and services across Hearst Magazines' brands in the USA and rejoins Hearst after leading digital media ventures for the company's UK operations (National Magazine Company) from 1999 to 2001.
Starting initially as a journalist in the UK, Ms. Stuart wrote about art, fashion, media and technology for The Independent newspaper (UK), The Guardian (UK), Time Out (London), Black + White (Studio Magazines in Australia), Out (NYC), International Broadcast and Screen International.
She created the first digital media team at Common Purpose, the international leadership organization that aims to improve the way towns and cities are run. After a brief consulting job at Condé Nast UK, for the original British Vogue and GQ web sites, Ms. Stuart joined The National Magazine Company to launch more than 21 corporate and consumer-facing online ventures.
From 2001 to 2006, Ms. Stuart spent five years in California, directing a range of digital projects including online, 3D animation, motion capture and mobile applications for clients including New Line Cinema, 20th Century Fox and Neven Vision (now part of Google's mobile operations).