Leadership Team

Christoph
Stadeler

EVP, Global Client Officer/Automotive Wunderman

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Christoph Stadeler has a knack for pulling the most complex pieces of the marketing and management puzzle together and creating a lasting competitive advantage as a result. He’s done so in the fiercely competitive automotive sector for familiar brands like Ford, BMW, Mini, Audi, Ope, and Saab, as well as in the FMCG, telco, health and financial sectors.

An internationally experienced leader in consulting, advertising and digital marketing, Christoph is EVP, Global Client Officer-Automotive. Based in London, he is responsible for Ford and its family of brands (Ford, Lincoln Mercury, Mazda and Volvo), as well as Land Rover and Jaguar all over the world.

Christoph is no stranger to Wunderman, having run German and Central European operations from 1994 to 1999. During that time he built for Ford of Germany Team Ford, the first seamlessly integrated team of Y&R and Wunderman professionals across all disciplines spanning from Advertising, CRM, Digital, Brochures to Promotions, Dealer Marketing and Teleservices.

From 1999 to 2001, Christoph was COO of digital agency Kabel New Media (now BBDO Interone), responsible for its merger and acquisition strategy. On the client side, he serviced BMW and Mini and realized the global launch of Mini.com.

Before rejoining Wunderman in 2009, Christoph was with MRM Worldwide Germany, serving as CEO for Germany, Austria and Switzerland and regional director for Scandinavia. Before that, he was a consultant to Compass Partners, a London-based Private Equity boutique, and orchestrated the turnaround of a pan-European health and services group with over 50 locations, 150,000 members and 3,500 employees.

He started his career in consulting servicing Fortune 500 clients in the Automotive and Telecom sector for over six years at The Boston Consulting Group and MC AG.

Christoph holds an M.S. in Business from the European Business School (Frankfurt, Paris and London). He also attended Art School in Florence and studied French in Vichy/Paris.