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The Global Family Business Champions

Family Business Top 100 Recognition For Ian Arbuckle MEIT


We are delighted to announce that Ian Arbuckle of LINIAN has been included within the inaugural Family Business United ‘Family Business Top 100,’ which recognises the exceptional contribution of individuals and their work within a family business.


Recognition in respect of:

  • Inspirational Leadership

  • Next Generation

  • Champion of Change & Innovation


Ian is the CEO and Technical Director at LINIAN. He spent his early years on the tools as an electrician and quickly progressed, spending the next ten years in a senior design role within various leading building services consultancies. He founded LINIAN with his sister Lynne and their parents and joined the business full time in 2015 before taking on the CEO role in 2016.


At LINIAN, Ian is responsible for the overall management of the companies ensuring that all goals are achieved, adheres to its core values and creates and maintains a working culture that benefits the business and the people. He also appreciates the opportunity to develop new products and make improvements to existing ones alongside his dad, Wes Arbuckle.


Ian has a great leadership style and is totally committed to being the best possible leader and mentor to the growing LINIAN team. He is also the driver behind the new LINIAN apprenticeship programme and mentoring and supporting the next generation of talent and increasing the leadership skills of the existing team too.


Ian is focused on the future of the business and future generations of the family and the workforce and thoroughly deserving of his place in the Family Business Top 100.

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