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During his six-year tenure at the national telecommunications leader Peter McCarthy has led many of its defining projects and transactions. Most recently, he negotiated Virgin Media (then UPC)’s ground-breaking agreement with 3, which made it Ireland’s first MVNO mobile services provider. ‘The thing I enjoy most is the variety’, he says. ‘In my role I have a wide scope of responsibility from the heavily technical networks team to the commercial B2B team. Each day is a new challenge and it keeps me on my toes and at the heart of the operations of the Company’. McCarthy’s strong commercial focus was reflected in his selection for an internal leadership development program. He also played a substantial role in company-wide consultant, aimed at improving internal processes and employee satisfaction. Heading a small legal team, McCarthy worked alongside corporate streams to roll out a comprehensive contract-management system. ‘I think the biggest challenge has been obtaining buy-in from the business in adopting the new contract management process’, he says. ‘The challenge was to convince the business to change its practice and show the positive benefits the new process would have’