Ian Lyall is a seasoned journalist and editor with over three decades of experience in the field. He currently serves as Managing Editor at Proactive, where he oversees the company’s editorial and broadcast operations across six offices on three continents. In this role, Ian is responsible for quality control, editorial policy, and content production.
Under Ian’s leadership, Proactive produces 50,000 pieces of real-time news, feature articles, and filmed interviews annually. The company’s financial news and online broadcast teams provide fast, accessible, informative, and actionable business and finance news content to a global investment audience. All the content is produced independently by experienced and qualified teams of news journalists who are well-versed in medium and small-cap markets, blue-chip companies, commodities, and broader investment stories.
Proactive has always been at the forefront of embracing technology. The human content creators have decades of expertise, while the team uses technologies to enhance workflows. They occasionally use automation and software tools, including generative AI. However, all content published by Proactive is edited and authored by humans to ensure the best practices in content production and search engine optimization are followed.
Ian directs the creation of high-quality financial news that excites and engages motivated private investors with unique insights on biotech and pharma, mining and natural resources, battery metals, oil and gas, crypto, emerging digital technologies like blockchain or fintech solutions for businesses to be more efficient or secure; as well as emerging EV technologies that will revolutionize mobility in the future years to come
