Keelan Green

Keelan Green joined Thornley Fallis & 76design in 2002 after several years in the federal government. As President, he leads and is responsibility for the overall performance and strategic direction of the firm.

In 2008, he led the firm’s Ottawa office to the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce Business Achievement Award for Professional Services Firm of the Year and was selected as one of Ottawa’s “Top 40 Under 40” by the Ottawa Business Journal.

Keelan draws on more than a decade of experience and expertise in communications, public relations, marketing, event planning, graphic design and website development to conceptualize, plan and deliver innovative communications projects, programs and campaigns aimed at achieving clients’ business and organizational objectives. He develops and implements communications and marketing plans; provides strategic advice and counsel to senior executives; manages print, web and multimedia design projects; executes public and media relations and marketing activities; and develops a variety of communications products.

Actively engaged in social media since 2005, Keelan has advised a variety of clients on how to incorporate online tools and applications into their internal and external communications programs and activities. A co-author of the Capital PR blog with some of his colleagues in Thornley Fallis’ Ottawa office, his online profile also includes Twitter (@keelangreen), Facebook, Linkedin and Foursquare.

Keelan’s clients know him to be driven to excel, committed to providing high-level service, fanatical about detail in execution, and virtually always available to assist with projects that require an extremely short turn-around. He leads many of Thornley Fallis & 76design’s top accounts and has delivered communications advice, products and services to a broad range of public and private organisations.

His primary are: Lockheed Martin, Ford of Canada, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, Enstream, the City of Ottawa, and the Government of Canada. Other clients that have benefited from Keelan’s expertise include: Dell, Waste Management, Cognos, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Alenia Aeronautica, Enablence, L-3 Communications, Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall, Visa Canada, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, Rx&D, the Canadian Newspaper Association, the Canadian Shipowners Association, the Council of Canadian Academies and a broad range of Government of Canada departments and agencies such as CMHC, CATSA, Environment Canada, HRSDC, Industry Canada, Infrastructure Canada, NRC, NRCan, PWGSC and Treasury Board.

Keelan began his career in the Federal Government at the Department of Finance, providing communications advice, products and services while working on a variety of demanding assignments including three federal budgets and two national economic updates. His success in the Communications Branch at Finance won him recognition in the form of an invitation to take on an additional role with the department’s Task Force for International Meetings that was created to support Canada’s role as chair and host of numerous international finance meetings between 1999 and 2001. Keelan established himself as a senior member of this Task Force that was responsible for communications, media relations and logistics for meetings of Ministers and Deputy Ministers of the G-20, Western Hemisphere and G-7, held across Canada as well as in Germany, Hong Kong and Turkey. While at Finance Canada, he twice managed the department’s cross-country, public consultations involving the Minister and Deputy Minister, and planned and executed numerous special events and speaking engagements of then Finance Minister Paul Martin.

In 2001, Keelan joined the Treasury Board of Canada in the Chief Information Officer Branch where he coordinated communications and media relations for the Government of Canada’s Government On-Line (GOL) initiative and provided strategic communications advice, products and services for policies and programs related to the electronic delivery of government services to Canadians. His contribution to the release of the department’s Privacy Impact Assessment Policy – he developed the communications strategy and wrote the products – was recognised with an award from the President of the Treasury Board.

In 2007, Keelan was integral to the planning and execution of two gala events honouring former Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney. Both of these events, one in Ottawa and one in Montreal, were attended by over 500 guests, including: the current Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Stephen Harper; numerous current and past Ministers, Senators and Members of Parliament; Ambassadors to Canada and other foreign diplomats; many corporate Presidents, CEOs and senior executives; and a variety of other prominent individuals. In 2009, Mr. Green assisted with the planning and execution of a reception in Montreal for more than 1000 guests to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Election of the Brian Mulroney Conservative Government in 1984.

Heavily involved in the community, Keelan is President of the Canadian Public Relations Society Ottawa/Gatineau Chapter. He also serves on several other volunteer boards and committees, including the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom, the National Arts Centre Opera Lyra Black & White Soiree Committee, the Salvation Army Ottawa Advisory Board and the Men’s League and Membership Committees at Rivermead Golf Club. He is a member of the Canadian Public Relations Society, the International Association of Business Communicators, the Canadian Marketing Association, the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries, the Canadian Club of Ottawa, the Economic Club of Canada, Rivermead Golf Club and the Ottawa Tennis & Lawn Bowling Club.

Born and raised in Ottawa, Keelan attended Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia where he received a Bachelors’ degree in Business Administration. Throughout his career he has participated in numerous training programs, conferences and seminars. He regularly attends Canadian Club, CPRS, IABC, Canadian Institute and Third Tuesday speaking, professional development and networking events.

Keelan is an avid golfer at Rivermead Golf Club, plays on two rec league hockey teams and enjoys tennis at the Ottawa Tennis & Lawn Bowling Club. He lives in downtown Ottawa with wife Laura and son Peyton.