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Joanna Stone is Senior Vice President of Global Strategy and Business Development for LexisNexis Group. She is responsible for developing global strategy, as well as overseeing the strategic aspects of business development and acquisitions. Stone was promoted to the position in September 2007 after serving as the head of Strategy of LexisNexis U.S. Corporate and Public Markets.
Prior to joining LexisNexis in 2006, Stone was the Executive Vice President of Business Development for the Thomson Financial Corporate Group where she oversaw strategic planning, acquisitions and partnerships. During her time at Thomson Financial, Stone led efforts to offshore research staff to Manila resulting in improved margins, managed large channel partnership relationships, and founded the company's Innovation Program, EDGE (Employee Driven Growth Engine).
Stone has also served as director of strategic planning at Dow Jones & Company, where she developed the initial business case for the Saturday Edition of The Wall Street Journal. Before that, she worked for Accenture and Time Warner. In addition, Stone has written articles for The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News and People Magazine.
Stone serves on the board of Pop & Politics, a nonprofit organization that encourages civic engagement in youth while training future political journalists. In 1997, she co-founded Montage Entertainment, Inc., a non-profit that encouraged diversity in media through mentoring youth.
Stone earned a bachelor's degree and master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also earned a Master's in Business Administration from Harvard University. She lives in New York City with her husband. | 