She was chief executive of High House Purfleet, director of the Foundation for Future London, the organisation responsible for developing the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as a new cultural and educational district and is currently Director of Employment, Skills and Culture at the London Borough of Islington.
Her appointment was announced by High House chairman Tony Hall, now director general of the BBC.
At Dundee, she was key in ensuring £5.6 million in National Lottery funding for the Dundee Centre for Contemporary Arts, the largest award to a Scottish institution at that point, and was suggested as a possible head of the Scottish Arts Council.
Whilst in this post, "she devised a highly successful investment strategy that generated over £125 million for a series of world class arts centres".
The purpose-built centre is shared by other organisations such as the Royal Opera House, Creative & Cultural Skills and Acme Studios,[6] and built on work Stark had done to support redevelopment while at the Arts Council.