Former Insider editorial director Ian Green has passed away aged 60 following a period living with throat cancer.
Green was born in Liverpool and attended Halewood Comprehensive before gaining his journalist certificate at what was then the London College of Printing.
He got a job on the business desk at the Liverpool Daily Post before moving to the Northern Echo as its business editor in 1990. He spent three years there before he moved to Leeds to take on the same role at the Yorkshire Post.
In 1998 he joined Newsco, the then-publisher of Insider magazines, to launch Yorkshire Business Insider before being headhunted in 1999 by former 3i director Stephen Ross to head up VentureDome.com, the UK’s first dedicated online venture capital/private equity news website and deal origination platform.
In 2004, he joined Andy Green’s (no relation) Green Communications agency in Yorkshire where he eventually became the majority shareholder before the pair decided to wind down their agency in 2015.
He subsequently took on several contract comms roles spanning Zen Internet, Interserve and latterly the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). He also kept up his journalism with business commissions from the Observer and Real Business among others.
A keen and active rower to the end, wine lover and avid Liverpool FC fan, Green is survived by his wife Annie and children Frank and Mercedes.
