James Stuart is an established search consultant in the Consumer & Services Goods sector and has extensive experience executing senior assignments internationally at board level. In recent years he has developed a strong expertise in prestige and high quality consumer goods and services clients globally, as well as deep exposure to Asian and American markets.

 

Prior to starting Cameron Stuart Associates, James gained 20 years’ experience in global executive and non-executive (board member) search with Russell Reynolds Associates for seven years, where he became an Equity Partner. He was subsequently recruited by Korn Ferry Whitehead Mann where he ran the London consumer practice and spent ten years originating and executing board level search mandates internationally.

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Alongside his search career, James was an Independent Non-Executive Director and Remuneration Committee Chairman of Polymer Logistics, a London-listed multinational business from its flotation in 2006 to its acquisition in 2009.

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His earlier career encompassed roles with pan-European responsibility in consumer products for Kraft Jacobs Suchard and General Motors Europe.

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A British national, James earned a Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins (SAIS) in International Economics & Politics and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and French.  James speaks French and German fluently.

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