The INSIGHT Group

Sinneck

News Release: December 1, 2010

Mike Sinneck, former Executive VP, Enterprise Business Solutions Fujitsu America and former IBM Executive joins The INSIGHT Group as Partner

Mike has extensive experience in professional services, particularly how it can add significant value to product firms. He takes a practical approach to helping clients improve the overall value and impact of their services business.

He is recognized as an effective and articulate leader with extensive general management experience in managing P&Ls. He has worked for Fortune 100 companies, managed multi-billion dollar services business units, and successfully delivered solutions to challenging client problems.

Prior to joining The INSIGHT Group, Mike was a senior executive with Fujitsu America serving as: EVP, Enterprise Business Solutions; and President and CEO of Fujitsu Consulting for US, Canada and India. His executive experience also includes: EVP, Corporate Program Management Office at Citigroup; VP of Services Business Development for Symantec; Microsoft Corporate Officer & VP Worldwide Services.

Mike also had a successful career at IBM where he held executive positions in sales, marketing and Global Services, and was VP Operations for the multi-billion dollar IBM US Business Innovation Services Consulting Unit.

At INSIGHT, Mike is responsible for helping clients in the following areas:

Professional services Practice Development
Business development and management
Identifying significant market opportunities and developing approaches to capitalize on their potential
Setting strategy and creating organizational buy-in and driving innovative approaches to sales and services merger integration
Pre/post sales support for both technology and software firms

Mike will also be a key member of INSIGHT’s thought leadership team working on the impact of the cloud computing model on services and solutions.
Mike has served on the advisory board of the University of Arizona, MIS School; was a member of the board of the Partnership for Learning in Seattle, WA; and currently serves as an advisor to Dynamics Ventures.