Mr. Chris Beaumont

Council Member Biography

Chris Beaumont is Managing Partner at Beaumont & Partners and Global COE Professor at Tokyo University. Mr. Beaumont is also a Senior Consultant at Big Picture International, a media consulting firm. Chris has spent the last two decades leading multi-national companies in Japan, but is very much a hands-on team player. While a Management Consultant in Europe, he focused on deregulations, IT/Telecoms and Retail brand marketing assignments working for BT, AT&T, DEC, Xerox. In Japan, he worked across many brand assignments, cascading consumer/customer insights for both domestic and multinational clients alike. He has an extensive experience of different categories working with some of the most valuable brands in the world and all of the top 10 most valuable global brands! Including Amway, AXA, Barcardi, BMW, Coca-cola, Cathay Pacific, Citibank, Disney, Esso, GM, GSK, J&J, Kyoraku, L’Oreal, LVMH, Marriot, Monsanto, Microsoft, Nike, Nestle, Novartis, Nike, Nissay, Nokia, Pfizer, Tiffany. He was a member of IBM’s Global Marketing Advisory Council for mobile. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

2009 - Unspecified

Senior Consultant, Big Picture International, KK

2008 - Unspecified

Managing Partner, Beaumont & Partners

2005 - 2008

Chief Strategy Officer, GREY GROUP ASIA PACIFIC

2002 - 2008

Chairman & CEO, Grey Group Japan

1992 - 2002

Vice Chairman , MCCANN ERICKSON JAPAN INC.