“Connecting people to sustainable enterprises.”
David Hennessy, Chief Technical Officer, Three Ireland.
“Having worked with Canice for many years, I found his leadership, programme management, innovation and deal making skills to be a valuable and trustworthy asset to 3’s business. Canice led BT’s contribution towards 3’s National Broadband Scheme Contract win, and his strong Rollout Programme leadership skills enabled 3 to expand its national coverage in record time. In addition, his innovative development of a Total Transmission Solution from concept to delivery for 3 made a significant contribution towards 3’s evolution to be the best 5G network provider in Ireland. I wish Viridi Connection every success in the future.”
Shay Walsh, Managing Director, BT Ireland.
"Over the last 14 years Canice has been an invaluable resource for our business. His extensive skills in Programme Management, Sales, Innovation, Communication, Leadership, Creativity and his perseverance to see complex and critical programmes through to the finish have contributed to BT’s growth in the ROI. We called upon Canice’s extensive industry experience on multiple occasions, why, because we knew we could trust Canice to get the job done. I wish Canice success in his new start-up company and highly recommend Viridi Connection for complex infrastructure programme management, client management and business troubleshooting consultations ."
“I have worked with Brian Norton as a consultant and senior leader for nearly 20 years. He has consulted to me across a variety of industries from IT, Telecoms, Education, Capital Equipment and BioTech.
As an individual he has lead transformation programs from the strategy development phase to operational delivery across technology innovation, organisation change and global consolidation. Brian is unique in that you can put him into situations from startup to disruptive change in legacy organisations and he has the ability to identify the key issues, work with the leadership to develop clear paths to success and has the skill set to personally deliver the change through his exceptional people management skills, operational and organisation awareness.
Sean Atkinson, Managing Director, ESB International.
“Canice provided a great deal of valuable business development and consultant led support in the early days ofthe Siro start-up. He networked well across my senior management and technical team. In particular, Canice initiated engagements between Siro and BT Group which led to real life Fibre to the Home Deployment field trips, presentations at BT Research and Development Labs and lessons learned from UK deployments. He produced an insightful fibre deployment business model which enabled my team to benchmark its view of the Irish Market. In a time when my business had many market knowledge challenges Canice made a real difference through his collaborative, consultative approach. I recommend Canice for similar work in the future."
“In my role as CIO at 123.ie I had many dealings with Canice and found his business consultancy skills to be customer centric and solution focused. He demonstrated a rapid understanding of our business challenge and in a very short time managed to win the respect of all stakeholders with his delivery focused approach and the solutions he created for our business ”
Jonas Moberg, Infrastructure Business Unit Manager, Melbye Skandinavia
“We consulted Viridi Connection to support the production of an Irish Market Analysis Report which identified the overall infrastructure market size over the next 5 years and estimate the addressable market fit for Melbye Products and Services. It was a very impressive piece of consultancy work which provided a strong understanding of the Irish market for Melbye Scandinavia. I would highly recommend Viridi Connection for similar work in the future."
Brendan Brady, Procurement Manager, RSA Ireland
“As a Procurement Manager there is often a need to have very challenging conversations with my partners and suppliers. In this regard I have found Canice to be extremely professional as a representative for his business. I found Canice to be very customer focused yet challenged with an appropriately edge and I felt he was always negotiating to create an outcome that benefited both parties. This natural approach from Canice makes him a pleasure to do business with.”
Aaron Carroll, Chief Financial Officer, BT Ireland.
"Our business had a particularly sensitive commercially complex delivery issue to resolve with one of our key multi-national customers. It required a business-critical 3rd party technology platform to be replaced with a credible BT solution. This time sensitive and commercially complex needed a highly experienced industry specialist capable of troubleshooting the business problem from end to end and fixing it. We engaged Canice Keane (Founder of Viridi Connection) to lead this business troubleshooting challenge and we were not disappointed. Canice quickly pulled together a strong team of finance , project management and technical experts to scope the problem, analyse it, build it into a programme and govern its implementation. The outcome Canice delivered resulted in significant business risk mitigation for both BT and our multinational customer. What Canice pulled off was truly remarkable for our business and I would have no hesitation recommending his Viridi Connection business for similar work."
Audrey worked as the lead commercial lawyer (for BT Ireland) for the development of the H3G mobile network roll-out in Ireland, in 2003. This significant and challenging project became a highly successful project which helped to change the mobile telecommunications landscape in Ireland. This project was later followed with Audrey providing legal support on the Irish Government State initiative, the National Broadband Plan. Audrey also provided legal support to the Technology team in Worldpay (London) with the migration of the technology platform from the RBS to Worldpay in the period 2013 to 2015.
Audrey has completed the Professional Diploma in Corporate Governance (with merit) with the Smurfit Business School and is a certified coach practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, and mentor with the Law Society of Ireland providing business and executive mentoring leadership.