Insight announced the appointment of Darren Hedley as Managing Director of the company’s United Kingdom and Ireland business. Currently Sales Director of Public Sector, UK and Ireland, Darren will assume his new role from January 1, 2021.
He will replace Emma de Sousa, who is leaving the role to become President of the company’s EMEA business. The UK is a key market for Insight, receiving recognition through a number of accolades, including being named one of the UK’s “Best Workplaces” in 2020.
De Sousa said she was keen to appoint an internal candidate who was already “living and breathing Insight’s values”.
“I’m confident Hedley will be just as successful in leading the UK as he has been in developing and driving forward our public sector business. As part of the UK management team he’s played a key role in transforming Insight into a major solutions and services player. Under his leadership, the public sector team has delivered transformational solutions to organisations across the country and robust year on year growth for Insight.”
Having joined Insight from Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2017, Hedley has led the public sector business in winning major new government framework agreements and has also expanded its Alliance Partner Network. Under his leadership, the public sector team has delivered strong growth year on year and seen its NPS score increase by over 14 points.
Hedley said: “It is a huge honour to be asked to lead Insight in the UK. The team has really demonstrated our core values of Hunger, Heart and Harmony when helping clients through the exceptional circumstance of the last few months, providing vital solutions to enable new ways of working and build business resilience. I could not be prouder to lead such a talented and successful UK team.”
