Insight Enterprise, Inc. Pushed CEO Out

Insight Enterprises, Inc’s. NSIT (NASDAQ) board Monday September 8 ousted its CEO, Richard Fennesy. Fennesy had been in charge of the firm since 2004. Insight, a distributor of computer hardware and software in North America, carrying thousands of products from major manufacturers, selected a current board member Anthony Ibarguen to serve as the firm’s interim CEO until a successor is chosen. According to Insight, Ibarguen has more than 25 years of IT industry experience including serving as President, Chief Operating Officer and a director of Tech Data Corporation (TECD). Additionally, he served Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Entex Information Services. He also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Alliance Consulting Group, a privately held IT consulting and software solutions firm.According to a story by Patrick O’Grady for the Phoenix Business Journal,

co-founder and Chairman Tim Crown during a conference call said …“It was with this focus that the board determined that now is the right time to make a change in the CEO position,”

… Crown said there is no one thing that led the board to decide a change of direction is in order, but the company has been buffeted this year having to restate about $61.2 million in earnings related to accounting for certain aged transactions. The restatement involved transactions going back to 1996.

The abrupt change at Insight may augur some positive results for the firm once the dust settles and the firm focuses its business strategy. Keep a close eye on the interm CEO’s moves and the firm’s ultimate choice for a permanent CEO.