Global Chief Strategy & Product Officer, Wavemaker
As Global Chief Strategy & Product Officer, Stuart is responsible for the way Wavemaker thinks and acts in finding better ways for their clients to grow.
Part of WPP, Wavemaker is the fastest growing media network in the world in 2023 as it expanded its partnership with global powerbrands like L’Oréal, Danone and Paramount as well as adding new economy clients such as Square, Tik Tok, Zwift, Back Market, Adobe and Coinbase. Wavemaker won the Titanium Lion in Cannes in 2022 for its Generative AI work for Mondelez.
Stuart has previously been MD and CEO of Wavemaker in the UK, , Head of Strategy at PHD UK, CSO at Vizeum UK, a strategist and a creative at Grey London & Grey Singapore and has led comms planning inhouse for BT; he has been a juror for Cannes, the Effies and the APG.
Stuart has studied AI at Said Business School, Oxford, and is currently a Visiting Policy Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute where he is researching bias effects in social platforms.