Fiona Spooner, Managing Director, Consumer Revenue – Financial Times

Fiona Spooner is managing director of consumer revenue at the Financial Times. With an experienced background in the media industry, particularly in digital transformation and subscriptions, she currently leads the global Consumer Revenue Group and is responsible for consumer marketing, customer care and business development growth in order to support, fund and champion quality journalism.

Prior to this, Spooner was global marketing director. In this role, she was instrumental in developing the FT’s reader revenue model, and developing FT Strategies, a boutique consultancy that helps clients build sustainable digital business models.

She is a Fellow of The Marketing Academy and is committed to giving back and using her skills for good; she helped to launch the FT’s News School initiative, is part of The School of Marketing mentoring programme and also sits on the corporate board of trustees for the Teenage Cancer Trust and Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity marketing & advertising advisory panel.

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