Richard Sanderson leads Spencer Stuart’s Marketing, Sales & Communications Officer Practice in North America. He advises CEOs, boards and people leaders on recruiting and retaining transformational marketing, customer and growth executives. He works across all industries, solving some of the most complex leadership mandates with a nuanced understanding of modern marketing, product and customer strategy. Over the years, Richard has shaped and executed high-impact executive searches ranging from chief marketing officers (CMOs) to senior customer, revenue, brand, digital, growth and experience leaders across a range of Fortune 500 companies, middle-market private equity-backed businesses and early-stage category disruptors.
Elevating the strategic and commercial impact of the marketing function
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Before joining Spencer Stuart, Richard led the marketing officers practice of another leading global executive search firm.
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He has executed a series of high-profile Fortune 500 CMO searches for clients seeking to transform or evolve the influence of the marketing and customer function in their enterprise. He has also recruited CMOs for leading retailers, food and beverage businesses, financial services companies, social media platforms and digital marketplaces, technology and telecom businesses, health payers and providers and a variety of rapidly scaling dotcoms.
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Prior to executive search, Richard was a senior associate in the consumer, media and digital practice of Booz & Company (now Strategy& within PwC’s network). He led a variety of pre- and post-merger integration, due diligence, growth and overhead optimization projects for consumer, retail and private equity clients in North America and Europe.
Richard received his B.A. in modern history and economics from the University of Oxford, Balliol College, and his M.B.A. in finance and strategic management from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.