After moving to Italy in the late 1960s (to go scuba diving), he returned to New York City in the early 1970s and was a founding partner of the Cavalieri Kleier Pearlman advertising agency.

Parts of the expedition were filmed by British television for inclusion in a 13-part series titled Village Earth,[17] which aired on ITV in April 1983.

In 1989-91, Pearlman worked as a USAID consultant for the government of Botswana, and from 1984 to 1989, he was a member of Yale University's Council Committee for the Peabody Museum of Natural History.

[19] He produced pro bono marketing materials for The Cousteau Society for five years, and he was also a member of an Explorers Club sponsored Whale Rescue Expedition to Baja, Mexico, to test equipment for marine mammal strandings.

[5] From 1999 to 2003, he organized and led a series of expeditions to document Floppy/Flaccid Trunk Syndrome, a mysterious disease that causes paralysis in African elephants.

[6] Loews Monte Carlo Casino Guide to Gambling, Monaco, 1975 Yugoslavia: At the center of the cosmos, Town & Country Magazine.

[5] The founder of the collectSPACE website is also a well-known explorer and Lindbergh Foundation collaborator named Robert Pearlman, but they are not the same person.