Stu Pearman

Partner and Energy Practice Lead

Stu Pearman has been a management consultant for 15 years and a partner for nine. Stu possesses expertise in energy and related services, outsourcing, and general management in a number of industries. Stu is also an experienced practitioner, with 19 years of general industry experience in both line and staff management roles. Prior to ScottMadden, he worked for NBC, a division of GE. Stu earned a B.A. in psychology from Williams College and an M.B.A. from the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, where he graduated at the top of his class and won the Best Industry Analysis Award. Stu is on Kenan-Flagler’s adjunct faculty, teaching consulting and leadership.

Specialties

Recent Assignments

Viewpoints

Specialties

Strategy development
Generation, renewables, carbon, and wholesale
Mergers and acquisitions
Outsourcing advisory services
Organizational design and staffing and strategy to lead the workforce of the future
Metric-based process design, improvement, and standardization

Recent Assignments

Led multiple merger and acquisition projects including screening, due diligence, integration, and divestiture
Developed a strategic plan for one of the largest deregulated gencos including environmental, market structure and regulatory policy, generation management excellence, and target customers, channels, and assets
Assessed the European carbon markets and pending U.S. carbon legislation to develop a scenario view of the future U.S. carbon regime. Translated this view into an entry strategy for an electricity marketer
Developed a strategy to lead the workforce of the future for one of the largest and most respected utilities in the United States. Strategy included both “hard” initiatives and “soft” culture and change management actions
Developed call center outsourcing strategy, drafted RFP, and managed vendor selection for a top-rated utility
Led multiple continuous business process improvement projects for multiple gas LDCs. Scope included customer acquisition to hookup, usage to bank, customer service delivery, organization design, profitable growth, regulatory strategy, supply chain, systems and reports, and planning and budgeting
Assessed seven renewable technologies in terms of technology, economics, and market opportunity. Developed strategic plan for market entry along with pro formas
Led multiple projects to develop, assess, implement, or improve "playbooks" for very large generation business units. Scope included organization design, goal structure, operations, maintenance, and outage best practices, market-to-generation linkages, planning processes, activity-based costing, information systems, operations and maintenance processes and procedures, etc.
Provided outsourcing advisory services to create annualcreditreport.com for three national credit reporting agencies after they were required by law to provide free credit reports to the U.S. population. Despite a tight time frame and the unprecedented nature of this undertaking, the program was implemented on time, very successfully
Developed a strategic plan for a mid-size gas delivery company, focusing on growth initiatives and core business improvement. Designed and implemented a goal structure and business planning process to ensure the plan was successfully implemented. The client has since reported significant improvements in earnings

Contact Information

Phone

(919)781-4191

E-mail

spearman@scottmadden.com

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