Ian McCulloch: ‘Luckily for us, people drink when sad and wh

[neil_jung]

Ian McCulloch: ‘Luckily for us, people drink when sad and when happy. That’s handy’
Having made a killing on LWT shares, the former ITV executive is now in the gin distilling business



Ian McCulloch began as a sales assistant in the advertising department at London Weekend Television (LWT) in 1980 and rose through the ranks to become the commercial director of ITV. He left the channel in 2007 and started Silent Pool Distillers, a brand of premium gin sold in Waitrose and Marks & Spencer. The distillery, on the Duke of Northumberland’s estate in the Surrey Hills, produces a range of gins, a rye grain vodka and will soon add a whisky to its portfolio. Ian, 61, lives with his partner, Alison, and their young son, Fred, in his Surrey birthplace. He has two daughters, Maise and Florence, from his first marriage.