Stephens was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada. Her father, Antony "Tony" Stephens served as president of Morguard Investments Limited., Morguard Investments and Morguard Financial and was President of the Lake of the Woods Water Sustainability Foundation since its founding in 2004. Her mother, Nancy Stephens was the daughter of prominent Manitoban businessman, Jack Bulman, and sister of W. John A. Bulman.
She was a homemaker.
The family relocated to metro Toronto in 1972 and the Stephens sisters attended Richview Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke.
Stephens was the youngest of three daughters. Following graduation, Stephens pursued her degree at McMaster University in Hamilton, majoring in English Literature and later earned a postgraduate diploma in Asian Marketing at Humber College in Toronto. Early career Following graduation from McMaster University in 1992, Stephens created a new television magazine show to Rogers television called ChitChat.
Also in 1992 she joined Bell Mobility as a Customer Care Representative and was promoted to Sales Planner.
Mobile Communications In 1995 Stephens joined Toronto-based Telesystems International Wireless (TIW) and her first position was with Unicom in China as Director of Sales & Marketing where the company launched the first Group Special Mobile operator in the Changsha region. Due to a mandate prohibiting foreign ownership of telecommunications companies, TIW was forced to sell the company back to the Chinese government and depart the region.
Within a year TIW"s Connex was awarded a Group Special Mobile license in Romania and Stephens went on to serve as Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Connex (Mobifon Société Anonyme) in Bucharest, Romania. In 1999 she became the Chief Commercial Officer with Oskar Mobil a.s. and helped build the third mobile telcom operator in the Czechoslovakian Republic.
In 2002 she was promoted to Chief Operating Officer.
In 2005 Oskar was bid on by Vodafone and Stephens became Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone. Stephens created and executive produced the nighttime talk show Vodopád (Waterfall), airing weekly on television Prima with Czechoslovakian actor Tomáš Hanák in the host’s seat. The show was considered a light and lively addition to television Prima’s program schedule.
Tokii In 2008 Stephens began working on Tokii, a relationship management platform headquartered in Oakville, Ontario in Canada.
The program launched its public beta on March 11, 2011. Honors and
Computer World’s Top 100 Companies (2005) Rhodos Best Image Award – Telcom (2003,2004,2005) Stevie Award for Women Entrepreneurs 2005 Design Effectiveness Awards (United Kingdom) 2005 Metro Golden Stone 2004, 2005 League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) Vision Awards (United States of America) 2001, 2003, 2004 World Communication Awards (United Kingdom) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005.
