InSites Consulting Names New MD for South Africa

In South Africa, communities specialist InSites Consulting has promoted Heather Tluczek to Managing Director. She replaces Henk Pretorius, who moves up to Head of Consumer Connections, a global role leading consumer network strategy for the group.

Pretorius is co-founder of the Johannesburg firm previously known as Columinate, which was acquired by InSites in 2018. In his new role, he heads up a team across Romania, South Africa, France and the UK, managing the company's various consumer networks. These include its proprietary crowdsourcing platform eÿeka; its creatives network; and Illume, its consumer creator network. 'There is a renewed focus on consumer connection as a critical capability to offering the right blend of people for the right research project. I am excited to be part of this next era for our proprietary networks', says Pretorius.

Tluczek takes over the MD role from her previous position as Research Director (Team Lead), having joined the business three years ago from Kantar TNS South Africa. Commenting on the move, she said: 'Henk implemented the country's first ever market research online community (MROC) under the Columinate brand, and I am committed to ensuring our continued position as the number one online community provider as InSites Consulting South Africa. Our team of talented research consultants in Johannesburg are supported by a wider group of industry experts all around the world. Together we will provide the best service to our clients across customer experience, branding and innovation'.

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