Virido was founded in 2000 by Gary Finney, President and CEO. An accomplished entrepreneur, with over 25 years of experience building successful sales and support teams, Gary’s success can be attributed to his:
- operational strength,
- “hands on” management style,
- ability to understand his client’s needs, and ability to implement processes.
Gary’s extensive knowledge has allowed him to design, develop and successfully execute small to large scale marketing and customer support initiatives for all size companies.
Finney’s vast industry knowledge has allowed him to create a pro-active, flexible, sense of urgency, over communicating environment with the ability to scale to size quickly. At the same time, it provides high quality performance at a lower cost variable expense.
With year after year growth since 2000, Finney has provided his clients with a comfort level and trust “second to none.” Finney consistently exceeds customer expectations and provided more than $350 million in NEW revenue for their clients in 2009.
Prior to Virido, Mr. Finney spent 10 years, as Vice President of Operations, with Zacson Corporation serving the technology, telecom and financial services markets. His duties included managing internal and external call center operations domestically and in Canada. Finney’s Zacson revenue grew almost fourfold. Prior to Zacson, Gary worked for 10 years in a family sporting goods business responsible for sales and marketing. During this time revenue grew year after year.
Over his career span, Gary’s client list to mention a few includes:
| IBM | H&R Block |
| BellSouth | Discover |
| Wells Fargo | Time Warner |
| USWEST | Pacific Bell |
| QWEST | Discover |
| Sun Microsystems | Providian |
| Prudential | Sears |
| Sprint | GTE |
| ATT | Blue Cross |
| Citibank | HSBC |
| Kaiser |























