Brian Ivory

Sir Brian Gammell Ivory, CVO, CBE, FRSE, FRSA is a Scottish business executive, accountant and arts administrator.

Education and career

Ivory graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971, and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1975.
He became a director of The Highland Distilleries Company in 1978, managing director ten years later, chief executive in 1994 and executive chairman in 1997.
He has also been executive chairman of Macallan-Glenlivet and Scottish American Investment Company, and has been a director of several companies, including Rémy Cointreau, the Bank of Scotland and HBOS.
He is a Trustee of the Royal Collection Trust.

Political career

Outside of business, Ivory has involved himself in the administration of a number of arts organisations; he was the vice-chairman of the Scottish Arts Council between 1988 and 1992, chairman of the trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland from 2001 to 2009, and is a former chairman of the trustees of Dumfries House Trust. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1993 and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2001. He was also appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1999, a Knight Bachelor in 2006, and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 2018 Birthday Honours.

Financial Statement

For all companies where Sir Brian Gammel Ivory holds a current appointment, the aggregate cash at bank value is £103.9m, a cumulative gross capital assets valuation of £578.8m and a total existing liabilities of £237.5 m and an overall estimated net worth of £826 m.