Stephanie Bass, Managing Director of Channel Islands Training & Development (C.I.T.D) has become the youngest Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the Channel Islands and one of the 10 youngest female Fellows worldwide. Stephanie gained the CIM Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing in 1995 and the following year sat on the inaugural committee of the CIM Jersey Branch. In 1998 she gained Chartered Marketer status and in 2003 was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year at the Jersey Awards for Enterprise as a direct result of C.I.T.D’s success.

Ms Bass said: “My marketing experience, combined with my professional CIM qualifications, have helped tremendously in building a successful training company. I am honoured and delighted to become the youngest person to be awarded Fellowship in the Channel Islands”.

John Henwood MBE, President of the Jersey Branch of the CIM said, “This is an outstanding attainment and demonstrates Stephanie’s commitment to achieving and maintaining the highest professional standards. It also serves to underline the Branch’s continuing emphasis on the importance of training and personal development.”

Stephanie continues to help create training opportunities in Jersey for local marketers. Channel Islands Training & Development has for the past 8 years provided high-quality marketing short courses delivered by international trainers. The company has also partnered with Cambridge Professional Academy over this same period to deliver the CIM suite of professional qualification programmes locally.

Steve Cartwright, Chairman of the Institute’s Jersey Branch, added: “It’s very satisfying to see another senior marketer elected to Fellow, the twelfth now in Jersey. This is the highest recognition of membership status that the CIM awards and I’m delighted that Stephanie has taken the honours.”