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Thought Leadership

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Insight Thought Leadership The Insight Group Team
We strive to be the 'Most Respected Consulting Firm in the Services & Solutions industry'. As such, we have assembled our team of top executive talent, including the architects of IBM's transformation from a product-centric corporation to the services & solutions-focused company it is today.

Insight's Thought Leaders

  • Tom Esposito
    Founder & Chairman
    28 years at The Insight Group
    Former IBM Vice President of Global Consulting & Services, Chairman of IBM's Services Executive Council
    Focus Areas: Services Strategy/Business Plan Assessment & Development, Big Data & Analytics
  • Ed Petrozelli
    Chief Executive Officer
    21 years at The Insight Group
    Former IBM General Manager of Product Lifecycle Management,
    Senior Executive of IBM's Senior Management Group
    Focus Areas: Marketing & Market Management: Products, Solutions, & Services, Big Data & Analytics
  • Joe Foresman
    President
    6 years at The Insight Group
    Former Director - Services Americas at DuPont Pioneer
    Focus Areas: Big data & analytics, agribusiness & agriculture, business planing, and customer wants & needs assessments
  • Michael Poehner
    Senior Managing Partner, Treasurer
    19 years at The Insight Group
    Former CEO for DMR Consulting Group
    Focus Areas: Business strategy development, market coverage strategies, sales management/marketing, and acquisitions & mergers
  • Deb Hodgson-Lyons
    Managing Partner & CMO
    7 years at The Insight Group
    Former Vice President - Global Marketing at DuPont Sustainable Solutions
    Focus Areas: Portfolio/Capabilities assessment and market positioning, go-to-market strategies, business development
  • Jay Connor
    Managing Partner, Secretary
    8 years at The Insight Group
    Former VP, Sector General Mgr, Hewlett-Packard, former Worldwide VP, COO for Prof. Svcs, Compaq
    Focus Areas: Solutions for account and salesmanagement, service and sales management, financial strategy, and mergers & acquisitions
  • Denny Sigloh
    Senior Managing Partner & Co-Founder
    28 years at The Insight Group
    Former Executive at IBM (Analytical Instruments Division, GIS Software Business Segment)
    Focus Areas: Customer wants & needs assessments, sales coverage/channel management model & strategy development
  • Jim Weigand
    Strategic Partner
    2 years at The Insight Group
    Former President, DuPont Sustainable Solutions
    Focus Areas: Business Strategy, Six Sigma, Cross-funtional Team Leadership, Continuous Improvement, Product Development
  • Doug Halbert
    Partner
    2 years at The Insight Group
    Former VP/GM, Tech Data | VP of Global Operations, Avnet | EVP Global Operations, Symmetricom
    Focus Areas: Business Transformation, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Operations, Product Management
  • Tom Penningroth
    Partner
    4 years at The Insight Group
    Former Business Senior Manager, DuPont Pioneer | Strategive Business Improvement Manager, DuPont
    Focus Areas: Change management leadership, Operations Management, First-of-a-Kind Service Development, Six Sigma
  • Walt Howell
    Partner
    8 years at The Insight Group
    Former President, Managed Services Sales, VP of GLobal INfrastructure Sales, CSC, SVP Global Services Providers, CA
    Focus Areas: Information Technology Services and software, financial services and strategies
  • Steve Crowe
    Partner
    3 years at The Insight Group
    Former Senior Manager Sales Operations at Corteva Agricultural Sciences
    Focus Areas: Agribusiness, Product & Services Sales, Wants & Needs, Revenue Growth
  • Steve Schmidt
    Partner
    2 years at The Insight Group
    Former Senior Manager, US-Canada Continuous Improvement, DuPont Pioneer
    Focus Areas: Commercial production agriculture, Continuous Improvement, Change Management, Sales Operations
  • 'T' Esposito
    Chief Financial Officer
    28 years at The Insight Group
    Founder & former CEO at Community Innovations, President-Emeritus, Missioners of Christ
    Focus Areas: Services Business Process Automation, financial analysis & planning, corporate culture, leadership
  • Rich Lechner
    Managing Partner
    8 years at The Insight Group
    Former IBM Vice President, Business & IT Services Marketing, Engineering Lecturer at Stanford Universty
    Focus Areas: Cloud strategies, marketing & business planning, big data & analytics, sustainability
  • Peter Lyons
    Partner
    15 years at The Insight Group
    Former Practice Leader, DuPont Consulting Solutions
    Focus Areas: Leadership, Business Strategy, Management Consulting, Six Sigma, Product Development, Competitive Analysis
  • Steve Huhn
    Partner
    11 years at The Insight Group
    Former VP, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services | Former VP, IBM Global Services | Senior Consultant, Vantage Partners
    Focus Areas: Professional Services, IT Outsourcing, IT Strategy, Program Management, Vendor Management
  • Gus Maikish
    Strategic Partner
    14 years at The Insight Group
    Former Vice President and Managing Director at IBM, Adjunct Professor at Pace University - Lubin School of Business
    Focus Areas: Strategic/Global Account Management, Business Development, Account Planning, Sales training & transformation