Time Inc.

Executive Team

Sylvia Auton
Executive vice President

Sylvia Auton was named executive vice president of Time Inc. in March 2007. In this role she serves as chief executive officer of Time Inc.'s IPC Media, the U.K.'s consumer magazine market leader, and also oversees Time Inc.'s Southern Progress Corporation based in Birmingham, AL and the business sides of All You and Life.

Auton was appointed CEO of IPC Media in March 2003. A consummate publishing professional, she joined IPC in 1977 as a marketer before moving rapidly through the publishing ranks to become a core member of the IPC management team. During her time with the company, Auton has held a number of key senior positions and, in 1998, was appointed managing director of IPC's Country & Leisure Media division, the U.K.'s largest specialist publishing company, now known as IPC Inspire. She was part of the board team that developed the strategy and business under the Cinven-backed management buyout of the IPC business from Reed Elsevier in early 1998.

In October 2001, Auton was instrumental in the acquisition of IPC Media by Time Warner, for £1.15 billion-the biggest transatlantic media deal ever made. Auton is a director of ultimate parent company IPC Group Limited. She is chairman of IPC Media Pension Trustee Limited, the corporate trustee of the IPC Media Pension Scheme. She is also a member of the PPA Board.