ACP Magazines

Lynette Phillips Lynette Phillips, Publishing & Sales Director, Women's Lifestyle Titles
ACP Magazines
As Publisher & Sales Director, Women’s Lifestyle, Lynette Phillips heads up the editorial and advertising teams of the women’s lifestyle division at ACP Magazines. This extensive portfolio includes The Australian Women’s Weekly, Cleo, Cosmopolitan, Dolly, Good Health & Medicine, Grazia, Harper’s BAZAAR, Madison, NW, OK!, Shop Til You Drop, Slimming & Health, Take 5, TV Week and Woman’s Day.
Lynette’s career at ACP spans over 17 years during which time she has played an instrumental role in the successful launches of Harper’s BAZAAR, Shop Til You Drop, Madison, and most recently the weekly fashion and lifestyle bible, Grazia. During this period Lynette has also overseen the major relaunch of ACP’s flagship title, The Australian Women’s Weekly.
Australia’s first-ever month-long fashion and beauty festival, 30 Days of Fashion & Beauty was successfully launched by Lynette, and will run for the third consecutive year in 2009. Lynette maintains a close relationship with ACP’s joint-venture partner in New York, Hearst Magazines, with the JV titles of Harper’s BAZAAR, Cosmo and Madison falling within her portfolio.
Lynette is a board member of the ‘Fragrance Foundation’ and the ‘Cancer Patients Foundation’ which incorporates the ‘Dream Ball’ and ‘Look Good… Feel Better’ committees. Lynette also sits on the committee for ‘Fashion Targets Breast Cancer’.

Phil Scott

Phil Scott, Publishing Director, Men's, Specialist & Custom Titles
ACP Magazines
Phil Scott rejoined ACP Magazines in November 2002 as Group Publisher for the Men’s Lifestyle division comprising 16 titles across men’s interest, sport and motoring genres. He took on additional responsibilities for the Specialist division in 2003 , which includes magazines as diverse as Gourmet Traveller, House & Garden , Disney Adventures and Money, and added the Custom Publishing responsibility soon afterwards. Clients include Qantas, Foxtel, Myer , Austar and Coles supermarkets.
Phil has over 30 years experience as a quality journalist, editor and publisher in print and on television. He is also general manager of ACP’s joint venture with BBC Worldwide, which launched Top Gear and Good Food magazines in 2008.  Prior to rejoining ACP Magazines, Phil was Managing Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and editor in chief of ACP’s motoring titles until 1995.

Julie Sherborn Julie Sherborn, Managing Director
ACP Magazines - Asia
Julie Sherborn is the Managing Director of ACP Magazines - Asia. Julie’s career in the publishing and marketing industries began in newspapers in the UK.

In 1989 Julie moved to Singapore where she held a variety of public relations roles working with international brands such as Singapore Airlines, as well as senior editorial positions. Julie joined ACP Magazines in 1993 as Editor-in-Chief launching the Singapore edition of Elle magazine. Under Julie’s direction, ACP Magazines now publishes market-leading magazines throughout Asia as well as Malaysian editions of CLEO, Cosmopolitan, The Women’s Weekly, Harper’s BAZAAR and The Finder.

Julie is President of the Association of Media Owners Singapore (AMOS), a member of the Executive Council of the Magazine Publishers Association of Singapore (MPAS), and Chairman of the Singapore Advertising Hall of Fame Awards.

Keith Falconer Keith Falconer, Chief Executive Officer
Trader Classifieds, ACP Magazines
Keith Falconer is the Chief Executive Officer of ACP Magazines' Trader Classifieds. Keith was appointed to the role in March 2004 having relocated to Melbourne from ACP Media New Zealand. In April 2002 Keith was appointed ACP Magazines Trader Group’s Chief Operating Officer. Since joining ACP Magazines in 1987, Keith has held various roles including Advertising Group head for ACP Magazines' New Zealand's Current Affairs magazines, Operations Director of ACP Magazines New Zealand and General Manager of the Trader Group in New Zealand. Keith also heads up the recently acquired business-to-business publishing company Publishing Services Australia and holds the position of Chief Executive Officer of Trader Group New Zealand.

Matthew Stanton Matthew Stanton, Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operating Officer
ACP Magazines
Matthew Stanton joined ACP Magazines in August 2008, in the capacity of Chief Operating Officer / Chief Financial Officer.
Prior to joining ACP Magazines, Matthew worked as Finance Director at Emap Consumer Media UK for 2 years before it was sold to Bauer. His responsibilities covered Finance and Production along with executive duties in running the business. Prior to this Matthew worked for Inbev the global brewer for 10 years, latterly as a Finance Director of the UK and then its European operations.
He is a member of ACMA and holds a BA in Finance from Liverpool University.