CAMERON STUART ASSOCIATES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Regional Managing Director, Asia Pacific at Fortnum & Mason
Cameron Stuart Associates are pleased to have advised the owners of Amouage and Marco Parsiegla on his appointment as CEO of Amouage and wish Marco many congratulations
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Independent Non - Executive Director of Polymer Logistics
James Stuart is the Managing Director of Cameron Stuart Associates. James has over twenty years' experience in senior executive and board member search in consumer markets globally on behalf of leading brand-led businesses.
After an early career spent in consumer products in roles with a pan-European remit with Kraft Jacobs Suchard (now Mondelez) and General Motors Europe, James joined Russell Reynolds Associates in London in 1996 where he played a central role in the development of the pan-European consumer goods and services practice. He founded and led the B2C arm of the European Digital & eCommerce practice in 1999 and was elected an equity partner with Russell Reynolds Associates in 2001.
He subsequently led the UK consumer practice of Korn Ferry Whitehead Mann, where he spent ten years originating and leading board-level assignments in consumer markets internationally.
James was appointed an independent Non-Executive Director of Polymer Logistics on flotation on the London market in 2006. He was Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and was a member of the Audit Committee until the successful sale of the business in 2009.
James has a BA in International Relations & French from Sussex University and a Masters in International Economics and US Foreign Policy from Johns Hopkins SAIS. He speaks French and German fluently.
Job Titles:
- CSA Co - Sponsor the World Record - Breaking 2017 Winners of the Talisker Challenge - the World 's Toughest Rowing Race
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Divisional HR Director
- Group Human Resources Director of Betfair
- Member of the Governing Body of Loughborough University
Tony Williams is a Partner with Cameron Stuart Associates. He brings over 30 years experience building and shaping high-performing executive teams and leading transformational change. Tony has a track record as a key executive team member running successful global businesses across the media, retail and digital sectors, among others.
Between 2001 and 2014 Tony was Group Human Resources Director of three FTSE 100 Companies: Carlton Communications plc, Kingfisher plc, and Betfair plc. In addition, Tony led the Human Resources teams of several large privately-owned businesses, and gained executive search experience at Russell Reynolds Associates.
Alongside his work with CSA, Tony is also a member of the governing body of Loughborough University, where he graduated in Economic & Social History with Economics, and is actively involved in fund raising for Muscular Dystrophy UK.
After his early career in Human Resources with GEC-Marconi in the UK and USA, where Tony became a Divisional HR Director, Tony joined News International and later W H Smith. In both businesses, he worked with the Chief Executive Officers on transforming the management and culture.
Tony subsequently joined Russell Reynolds Associates where he worked in the European Consumer practice, partnering with CSA's James Stuart at that time. At Russell Reynolds, Tony was accountable for delivering a wide variety of board-level executive searches in the UK and internationally.
Tony was then tempted back in to a corporate role and invited to join the Executive board of IPC Media, which was then private equity-backed. Here he was instrumental in preparing the organisation for IPC Media's sale to AOL Time Warner. Following this Tony was appointed Group Human Resources Director of Carlton Communications plc where he played a key role in managing the business during in advance of its merger with Granada plc to form ITV plc in 2004.
After the merger of Carlton Communications plc with Granada into the new ITV, Tony was a consultant to the Royal Shakespeare Company before being approached to become Group Human Resources Director of Kingfisher plc. At Kingfisher Tony worked directly with the Chairman to appoint a new CEO for the group and subsequently with the new CEO on appointing a new team of executive directors to transform the performance of the business.
After leaving Kingfisher plc, Tony became Group Human Resources Director of Betfair, then a private company. The business went public a year later. After the flotation, Tony worked with the founder Chairman to appoint a new Chairman and CEO and then with the new CEO on putting together a new executive board.
During 2015 Tony worked with the CEO and founder of Wargaming.net, a "free to play" online gaming business with 150 million registered players globally. Wargaming.net is a private company.