Stuart Pearce

STUART PEARCE

Portfolio CTO
Hg
Private Equity Enterprise SaaS
2025 TOP 30 EMEA CTOs 2025

Career History

Stuart Pearce is Portfolio CTO at Hg, one of Europe’s leading private-equity investors focused on software and services. Backed by more than $65bn in funds under management, Hg partners with over 50 businesses across Europe and North America, helping them scale through operational excellence and technology leadership.

Since joining Hg in 2019, Pearce has helped portfolio companies adopt engineering best practices, scale delivery and strengthen technology governance. He has driven improvements in engineering metrics and dashboards, refined CI/CD pipelines and set stronger controls over architecture and team structures to accelerate value creation. He also played a key role in technology due diligence for major exits such as the sale of MEDIFOX DAN, highlighting cloud migration, IT service management and platform architecture improvements.

Earlier, he spent 16 years at Sophos, rising to Director of Application Development and leading large global engineering teams in cybersecurity. Pearce holds a BEng in Software Engineering from the University of Manchester.

About Hg

Hg was founded (as HgCapital) when the executives of Mercury Private Equity negotiated the status of fully-independent partner of owner Merrill Lynch. Since then, Hg has built a reputation as one of Europe’s leading private equity firms focused on mission-critical software and services. It manages over €65bn in assets, with more than 50 portfolio companies under its umbrella and dozens more through its sector-specialist funds.

Hg supports growth via active operational involvement: helping its portfolio scale engineering capabilities, adopt robust delivery practices, navigate regulatory demands and achieve sustainable revenue growth. The firm’s strategy involves long holding periods, deep sector knowledge and hands-on resources to back entrepreneurial leadership in software businesses.

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