Duff Stewart

Duff Stewart is a 22-year veteran of GSD&M. As CEO, he ensures the agency has the right people, resources and perspective to fulfill its purpose of doing whatever it takes to build clients’ businesses. Through purpose-based branding, GSD&M helps articulate and activate a client’s core purpose and creates ideas that make a difference.

With a passion for bold creative and a well-developed business sense, Duff has led a profitable agency turnaround over the past five years. Since becoming CEO, more than 90 percent of the agency’s roster is new and the team has expanded capabilities in digital, design, experiential and many other areas.

Prior to becoming CEO, Duff held many other agency roles including president, COO and head of account service and was a three-time EFFIE award-winning group account director for clients including Fannie Mae, the Fannie Mae Foundation, The Steel Alliance, United Health Care and the United Health Foundation. His other brand experience at the agency includes Southwest Airlines, BMW, Wal-Mart and Molson Coors Brewing Company.

In addition to his many operational contributions, Duff has long served as a cultural leader. He helped define and articulate the agency’s core values: integrity, curiosity, restlessness, community, freedom & responsibility and winning. These values are carved into the floor of the agency’s headquarters building – a massive construction project that Duff led as part of the revitalization of the western edge of Austin’s downtown.

Within the Austin community, Duff is president of the board of directors for the Austin Theatre Alliance and has lent his time and talents to causes like the Austin Bike Share program of which the agency is a co-founder, the Anti-Defamation League, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and the LIVESTRONG Challenge. He is also active in local, state and national politics.

Duff began his career in commercial real estate after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in economics.

Of the many opportunities that GSD&M has offered him, none compare with meeting and marrying his wife Liz and raising their three children.


About GSD&M 
GSD&M is an advertising agency headquartered in Austin, Texas. With a restless culture and purpose as a guiding force, GSD&M builds brands with an integrated creative and media approach. GSD&M is part of Omnicom Group, Inc. (NYSE:OMC). For more information go to GSDM.com.