Mr. Steven Gundersen

biography

Steve is the founder of Gundersen Partners and a recognized leader and industry expert in the world of marketing, advertising, and marketing services. He leads the company’s international advertising and marketing services practice as well as being involved in a broad range of senior executive placements across the industry spectrum. Steve generally deals with C-level searches, including CEO and General Management placements that require core marketing skills. His clients include some of the largest and smallest agency groups in the world as well as leading Fortune 500 firms. His placements have been made around the world as he has built a truly global firm. As such, he regularly spends time not only in the New York headquarters, but also in London, Madrid, Toronto, Sydney, San Francisco, and Detroit, to meet the needs of his clients.

Steve has led the expansion of Gundersen Partners’ capabilities into value-added services to augment our search capabilities and benefit his remarkable network of contacts. This includes a very successful M&A practice in the marketing services arena. Under his guidance, the firm has provided core business and strategic planning for key clients as well as organization design.

An entrepreneur, who built Gundersen Partners from the ground up, Steve is often quoted in the business and marketing/advertising industry press. He has been a frequent speaker with the Promotion Marketing Association of America, Fulcrum, and the Association of Promotional Marketing Agencies Worldwide, among other industry-related conferences and seminars.

Prior to founding Gundersen Partners, Steve was an executive search consultant with Judd-Falk, a retainer search firm specializing in marketing and marketing services. Within three years in the search business, Steve became a key member of the Judd-Falk organization and began to build the long-term client relationships and successful track record, which became the foundation for his leaving to start Gundersen Partners in 1984.