About me
Stephanie started her career in headhunting, working for Taylor Bennett before moving into the Marketing and PR industry in 2003, specialising in the luxury travel and property industry for six years. In 2010 she left her position as business director at the travel PR agency Mason Rose to focus full-time on the marketing consultancy she co-founded in 2009, Cicada Marketing. Later in 2010 Steph raced to the North Pole, becoming the fastest woman to have ever done so whilst raising £50,000 for Mencap. It was on this trip that she met Michael Sugden and Andrew Peake, CEO and MD of VCCP.
Steph joined VCCP in late 2010 as Marketing and New Business Director. VCCP was Marketing magazine’s Agency of the Year in 2011 and topped the industry’s most in demand agency rankings in both 2011 and 2012. Steph now sits on the VCCP Partnership Management Team as Group Chief Marketing Officer.
Projects
- Article: Want to challenge bad habits? Hire an optimist(Article originally published by Campaign, June 2017) VCCP's group chief marketing officer explains why optimism is her secret work weapon. Oscar Wilde once said the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that the optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist the hole. I love doughnuts and don’t count calories, so I guess that puts me in the optimist’s camp. Optimists are people, like me, who always plan to get more done than time permits. An optimistic person is always looking for the b
- Article: British woman is fastest female to reach the North Pole(Article originally published by The Sun, 2010) A BRITISH woman who battled polar bears and 70mph winds has becoming the fastest female to reach the North Pole. Stephanie Brimacombe, 26, from Devon, completed the 350-mile Polar Challenge in 12 days, nine hours and 40 minutes, along with boyfriend Rupert Nicholson and pal Tom Williams. Stephanie said: “We were in a really bad way. We were exhausted, dehydrated and almost at the end of our ability to carry on. “But we were absolutely determined t
- Management Today - 35 WOMEN UNDER 35 2016: Stephanie BrimacombeMulti-tasking is just part and parcel of Brimacombe’s job – her role is CMO across both communications firm VCCP and its parent company Chime. She globally manages all events and PR (including crisis management), and has exceeded new business targets each year. Brimacombe has a two-year-old daughter and works four days in the office and a fifth day at home.
Projects credited in
- This International Women’s Day, meet the 200 Women Redefining the Creative Industry in 2018Discover our 2020 list here This International Women's Day, we asked influential icons to nominate 10 trailblazing women who they believe are redefining the creator landscape. The result? A unique and incredible list of 200 trailblazing women breaking barriers and inspiring change! Only 36% of jobs in the creative sector are currently filled by women. At the top of the tree there’s an even bigger problem - women make up only 11% of Creative Directors. In an attempt to change this, our month-lo165
Work history
Board MemberThe Marketing Society
Full Time
Group Chief Marketing OfficerVCCP
London, United KingdomFull Time