Aberdeen, Scotland – 12 November 2025 – Enlightenment Publishing, announced the publication of Sir Ian Wood – Aberdeen’s Billionaire – Ruthlessly Humble. The life story of Scotland’s richest and most reclusive homegrown billionaire, Sir Ian Wood, Including his tragedies, the man, and how he transitioned his company “Woodgroup” from fishing into an International energy giant, employing 60,000. Sir Ian Wood is the last great Industrialist of our age, and his story is told for the first time.
Foreword “Sir Tom Hunter”.
“Sir Ian’s story is the stuff of legend – he took a parochial fishing business and transformed it into a global oil & gas services business and in passing became one of the few Scottish billionaires. Not content with his entrepreneurial success and treading in the footsteps of Andrew Carnegie, Sir Ian set about applying his inimitable business skills to the world of philanthropy working both at home in education and economic development and in Sub-Saharan Africa utilising a venture philanthropy model. This is the story of one of the greatest Scottish businessmen and philanthropists of all time.”
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