Ian Livingston, Baron Livingston of Parkhead

Ian Paul Livingston, Livingston Baron of Parkhead ( born July 28, 1964 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish manager and British ministers.

Early years and personal

Ian Livingston into a Jewish family of Polish and Lithuanian roots that immigrated 120 years ago in Scotland. The family belonged to a company for the production of flight jackets and police uniforms. The father of Livingston was house physician at Glasgow Parkhead district and the first of the family who attended a university. Livingston, the youngest of four siblings, attended Kelvinside Academy and won a tendered by the Royal Bank of Scotland stock market competition, in which he virtually tripled in ten months, 10,000 pounds. He studied economics at the University of Manchester.

1989 Livingston married his present wife, whom he had met at the university. The couple has two children.

Career

After Livingston had completed 19 years of his studies, he trained as an accountant in the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, and to him was given the task as chief accountant of The Independent newspaper. He then moved to Bank of America and to the private equity firm 3i. In 1991 he went to Dixons Group after he was Stanley Kalms noticed, and was there at the age of 32 became the youngest CFO of a company that was listed on the FTSE 100. He played an important role in the founding of the magazine PC World and the provider Freeserve.

Following the sale of Free Service Livingston went as finance director for BT Group before its CEO in the retail and 2008 Chairman of the Board in 2005. On June 19, 2013 it was announced that Livingston new British Minister of UK Trade & Investment is the successor of Lord Green. On July 15, 2013 he was raised to life peer with the title Baron Livingston of Parkhead.