Stephanie G. Comfort
Executive Vice President
Corporate Strategy

As executive vice president of corporate strategy, Stephanie Comfort is charged with enhancing the company’s competitive position in all of the markets it serves by developing a comprehensive strategy and vision for the organization. Previously, Ms. Comfort led Qwest’s investor relations program.
 
Ms. Comfort brings experience from the financial services industry where she held various management and analyst positions, including 17 years covering the telecommunications sector.  She joined Qwest in 2002 from Morgan Stanley, Inc., where she was a portfolio manager and strategist.  While with Morgan Stanley, Ms. 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.  She has also worked at Salomon Brothers, Inc. and Wertheim Schroder & Co., Inc.

Ms. Comfort holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Wellesley College.
 
Ms. Comfort currently resides in Denver with her husband and three children.  She is on the Board of the Christopher J. Georges Journalism Foundation at Harvard University and is Wellesley College Class Treasurer.