Joined CenturyLink

2011

Positions held

• Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Development – 2011

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree/Economics – Wellesley College/Wellesley, Massachusetts
• Master’s Degree/Business Administration – University of Pennsylvania/Philadelphia
• CEO Perspective Program, Kellogg School of Management – Northwestern University/Evanston, Illinois

Stephanie Comfort brings experience from the financial services industry where she held various management and analyst positions, including 17 years covering the telecommunications sector.

As Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Development at CenturyLink, Comfort drives the corporate strategy and planning, corporate development, customer insights and portal development. Previously, she led Qwest’s Corporate Strategy organization.

Comfort joined Qwest in 2002 from Morgan Stanley, Inc., where she was a Portfolio Manager and Strategist. While with Morgan Stanley, Comfort served as a Senior Telecommunications Services Analyst and was consistently recognized by Institutional Investor All-Star Survey and The Wall Street Journal as a top analyst covering the sector. Also, she has worked at Salomon Brothers, Inc. and Wertheim Schroder & Co., Inc.

Comfort is on the board of the Christopher J. Georges Journalism Foundation at Harvard University. In addition, she is a trustee at Colorado Academy and a mentor for Young Americans Center for Financial Education.