As the spouse and business partner of FCG founder Luigi Focanti, Stephanie Cuadra plays a key role in overseeing the company's European operations and communications. She is a native of the Los Angeles area and has worked as a freelance writer for a variety of U.S. publications including the Pasadena Weekly, LATimes.com and Connect Magazine. Stephanie began her career in journalism in 1998 as a reporter for the Daily Journal of Caracas where she covered the riveting presidential campaign of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez Frias. With a B.S. in Languages and Linguistics from Georgetown University, Stephanie is fluent in Spanish and Italian and has worked as a professional linguist in a variety of settings including the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Department of Justice, municipal courts, advertising agencies, as well as multinational corporations.