Leadership Team

Stewart
Pearson

Chief Client Officer
Wunderman

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Stewart Pearson believes one thing about business: its purpose is to make and keep a customer. With degrees in statistics and economics specializing in China, Stewart sees that the future of marketing lies in the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid. Expert in consumer insights and behaviors, Stewart serves as Wunderman’s chief client officer, responsible for guiding the architecture of the teams that serve many of our global clients, including a lead role in Wunderman’s global Nokia business.

An agency veteran who understands the complexities of global business, Stewart has lived and worked in Europe, Asia and the U.S. He joined Wunderman in 2000 as CEO of Wunderman’s Europe, Middle East/Africa region based in London, and was responsible for a client roster that included growing business from Ford, IBM, Citibank, Unilever and Xerox, and new business from Philips, Motorola and Lufthansa. From 2004 to 2007, he served as global lead on Microsoft, an account in which he was involved from start, architecting the “Team Microsoft” model and establishing Wunderman’s presence in Seattle.

Before Wunderman, Stewart held a number of positions at FCB, including chief operating officer Worldwide and FCB Direct in New York and regional director, Integrated Marketing in Hong Kong.

Earlier in his career he worked for an independent agency and sold the business to the Ogilvy Group and also worked for Ogilvy & Mather Direct (now OgilvyOne) supervising pan-European business for Xerox, Unilever and American Express. With venture capital and an entrepreneurial spirit, Stewart formed another independent agency and consultancy in London, Pearson Paul Haworth Noland, and as CEO built a team of 80 with clients including Apple, Coca-Cola, Financial Times, Heinz and Peugeot.

Stewart began his career in the U.K. at Reader’s Digest Association as an analyst and then music marketing manager. He doubled that business in three years through direct response print and TV, and also worked frequently in the U.S. and across Europe.

When he’s not meeting clients somewhere, Stewart makes his home in Seattle, Washington, with his wife and two daughters, and tries to keep up with them on skis, surfboards and horses.