EGRESS GROUP

Company background

Backed by FPE Capital, Egress Group is a trusted UK data partner working across healthcare, local and central government, emergency services, higher education and within the private sector.
 
With an excellent reputation proven in 600+ complex technology and system change programmes, they deliver strategic reviews and readiness assessments, data migration, system integration, archiving, data quality and advanced analytics solutions and services.

The brief

With support from FPE, Egress is looking to accelerate growth organically as well as through operational efficiencies and further acquisitions.

Directorbank’s James Searby was mandated to lead the search for a proven and transformative CEO to provide strategic, financial and operational leadership aligned to ambitious objectives.

The ideal candidate would be a commercial leader of a PE-backed IT services or software business with proven P&L ownership and extensive experience of selling services to public service providers (including the NHS), regional commissioning bodies, national agencies and private sector companies. They would be inspirational, highly driven and results-focused, with the ability to motivate teams to achieve full potential.

The process

James with support from our research team undertook a full market research and talent mapping exercise to pinpoint highly qualified and aligned candidates from across the sector. He also leveraged his industry connections as a source of referrals to maximise the talent pool.

After thorough screening, evaluation and interviews, Kieran Hughes was successfully appointed to the role.

The result

Kieran is an ambitious HealthTech leader with over 15 years experience of managing international teams to support large-scale digital and data integration projects across the public and private sectors.

Prior to Egress, Kieran was President of Europe and Middle East for Nordic Consulting, a global HealthTech consulting firm. He was also VP International at Tegria providing transformative end-to-end solutions for the healthcare sector, and VP EMEA at Optum providing innovative data, analytics and consultancy services to the NHS.