She graduated at The University of Sydney in 1987. She then qualified as a chartered accountant in Australia with KPMG before returning to Hong Kong where she spent six years with the Securities and Futures Commission as a senior manager with responsibilities for takeovers and mergers and policy work.

She obtained a law degree in 1997 from The University of Wolverhampton in England and was a member of the Corporate Finance Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She joined Anglo Chinese in 2000 and retired in 2020 to pursue her interests in creating fine jewellery

Stephanie’s interests outside business are a far cry from accounting or law. Aside from jewellery design she is an avid flower arranger and floristry takes up much of her precious spare time.