Stephen Short (died 2015)[citation needed] was a British record producer who also operated Ping Pong Music, an artist management company.

Working with musicians such as Kirk Allen and his band Elixir, Marc Bolan, Echo & the Bunnymen, Genesis, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Queen and Wings, Short went from being a teaboy to becoming senior engineer within two years.

After spending a brief amount of time in Los Angeles, California, Short traveled across the United States answering requests to become involved in many different musical projects.

Eighteen months later, Short discovered a group called Augustana, and signed them a two million dollar deal with Sony and EMI publishing.

In the mid to late 2000s, Short had developed more emerging artists including This World Fair and Camera Can't Lie.