Celtic legend Scott Brown has reinvented himself as a tech mogul and is helping to steer a new superfast broadband firm, the Record can reveal. Brown now sits on the board as a company director of Scots internet supplier Future Connected Fibre and has been involved with the business for about a year.
The ex-Scotland international is finding time around his busy schedule as Ayr United boss to help out at the firm, which is taking the fight to the big broadband providers. Brown told the Record: “I’ve been involved with the company in a silent partner capacity for a year or so now.
“I’m very excited about its potential – so it feels like the right time for me to put my head above the parapet and come on the board.” The 39-year-old added: “Obviously, I’m very busy with my football commitments at Ayr United and there’s a lot for us to achieve this season.
“But I will dedicate some of my spare time to do everything I can to help this venture. There are a lot of big projects in the pipeline and it feels like we’re in at the start of something very good.”
Full Connected Fibre aims to provide bespoke, superfast and reliable broadband to homes and businesses and brands itself as “an alternative to the often frustrating world of broadband from mediocre connection to poor customer service and unexpected price hikes”. It’s understood the firm is also exploring potentially lucrative deals with sports stadiums, public sector organisations and other groups.
General manager Elaine Burns said it was “fabulous” working with Brown and said the young business was “growing gradually”. She told the Record: “Scott’s very strategic in the way that he deals with things.
“He’s a high-level business person and I see him from that perspective and not the football perspective. He tends to things around his main job at Ayr United, so he tends to have little pockets where we have communication and meetings and whatever we need to do. But a lot of that’s on his own time.”
Burns added: “We have obviously spent a lot of time setting things up properly and making sure that we don’t just do the Big Bang and it all goes wrong. So we’re growing gradually and making sure that we have everything in place to ensure that we’re providing the service that we’re looking to provide to people as standard.
“We’re coming up to Phase Two now – Phase Two will mean that everything is in place.”
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