Steve Playford

Steve Playford is a distinguished business leader with over 20 years of experience in commercial management. He boasts an excellent record of delivering revenue growth and is known for his entrepreneurial flair and passion for selling high-quality products. Steve's strengths lie in leadership, strategic planning, business development, sales, marketing, relationship management, negotiation, people management, presenting, communication, project management, recruiting, building teams, and data analytics. He has achieved remarkable career milestones, including growing the FT Business Education Rankings to record revenues of £5.9m and launching and developing various products such as the FT Board Director Exec Education Programme, the FT NED Diploma, the FT 125, among others. Steve possesses a marketing degree from the Academy of Digital Business Leaders, and he has worked in different organizations, including Executive Appointments, Financial Times, Telegraph Media Group, and the Daily Telegraph. He is currently serving as the Interim Commercial Director at The Institute of Export & International Trade.