Stephen joined FutureLearn in February 2016 as Director of Business Development, bringing with him a wealth of commercial experience spanning nearly twenty years. His focus is on building out the B2B commercial strategy for FutureLearn, while providing the necessary foundations to ensure it becomes a sustainable business. 

Prior to joining FutureLearn, Stephen was the global sales and business development lead at 7digital for over ten years. He was instrumental in growing their music platform business from early stage startup to publically listed digital music industry stalwart. Before that, Stephen had a variety of business development and commercial roles at UKTV, UPC TV, Yahoo! and ITV.