EXCLUSIVE: After launching a literary department at the end of last year and appointing Rachel Mathias to run it, the UK-based Insight Management & Production has brought on industry veteran Luke Speed as a partner.
Speed comes to the company with 25 years of experience brokering global film and TV rights deals. He established his own firm, Speed Literary and Talent Management, in 2022, prior to that running the Media Rights Division at Curtis Brown Group.
With an extensive background in representing bestselling authors, as well as international screenwriters, directors and producers, Speed is also well-known for handling high-level investigative journalists and true-life stories.
Clients set to join him at Insight include Nikita Lalwani, Louise Candlish, Slutty Cheff, Graham Norton, Tade Thompson, Shari Lapena, Helen Fitzgerald, Damien Lewis, Simon Hatt, Andrew Michael Hurley, Nicola Larder, Richard Kerbaj, Chris Salmanpour, Alex Perry, Henry Hemming, and Brooke Robinson, among others.
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