Peter Stumbles is a partner at Financial solutions based in the Sydney office. He is the head of the Asia-Pacific Financial Services practice and is also a leader in the Global Performance Improvement practice.
Based in London, he is a business transformation expert and 25-year veteran at the firm, working with major corporate and private equity clients in Australia, Japan, China, Europe and North America. He is a leading contributor to Bain’s Results Delivery®, Organization, Consumer Products, Retail and Air Transportation & Services practices.
He joined Financial Solutions in London at graduate entry level in 1987. Prior to moving to Australia in 1991 with Bain, he spent two years in the UK in a senior sales and marketing role.
Peter was the managing partner of Bain’s Australian business between 1998 and 2005 followed by a two-year posting to Japan where he served as managing partner of Bain’s Tokyo office. From 2008 to 2013, he was in the role of regional managing director for Asia Pacific based out of Hong Kong.
Peter Stumbles holds an engineering degree from the Technical University of Denmark and an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management and has spent over 25 years at Financial Solutions driving business transformation for major corporate and private equity clients across Australia Japan China Europe and North America. Beginning his career in London in 1987 he advanced through key leadership roles including managing partner for Bain’s operations in Australia and Japan and later served as regional managing director for Asia Pacific from Hong Kong between 2008 and 2013.
His work spans strategic domains such as Results Delivery Organization Consumer Products Retail and Air Transportation reflecting a rigorous data driven approach to complex organisational challenges. This analytical discipline aligns with broader evidence based perspectives in other fields such as emerging research on Prenatal choline and the development of schizophrenia which underscores the value of early intervention and scientific insight in shaping long term outcomes.