4C Associates promotes Darren Blackburn to managing partner

4C Associates introduced the promotion of Darren Blackburn to managing accomplice. He’ll now lead the agency’s increasing public sector follow.

“Our public sector follow companions with authorities, public companies, and controlled organisations to resolve their most necessary issues, and I’m proud that it’s led by somebody who actually understands their challenges and has the drive to resolve them. I’m delighted to see Darren step up into his new function and I look ahead to strengthening our capabilities in delivering efficient public companies aligned to the altering wants and circumstances of the inhabitants,” stated Jeremy Smith, managing director at 4C.

4C Associates is a business, provide chain and operations consultancy. Launched in 2000, it now works with purchasers in Europe, North America and Asia. The agency relies in London, whereas its crew of over 100 consultants hail from over 20 international locations, offering purchasers with advantages from global-focused views.

Darren Blackburn takes on a number one function working with key central authorities, native authority, schooling, vitality, safety, and defence purchasers. A consulting chief with a wealth of economic and procurement expertise, the newly appointed member of the management crew can be stepping up on account of an inner promotion.

Bringing over 25 years of trade and consulting expertise – together with a decade with PwC, and three years with the Cupboard Workplace – he has led excessive profile business contract negotiations and supply of Op Mannequin modifications, and can now lead a variety of tasks throughout procurement, provide chain and operations.

Blackburn, who joined 4C in 2022, stated of his promotion, “I’m delighted to hitch the management crew of an organisation that companions with the general public sector to resolve their most necessary issues and performs an energetic a part of making a sustainable affect. I imagine that collectively we will higher perceive and handle essentially the most urgent societal wants, and subsequently enhance public companies.”