Businessman Executive chairman
Green was born on 2 December 1947 in Hampstead, London, to Cyril, a shirt manufacturer, and Irene, a doctor. His grandparents fled anti-Jewish pogroms in eastern Europe, and his father went on to run a successful business making drip-dry shirts.
Green was educated at The Haberdashers" Aske"s Boys" School, in Elstree, Hertfordshire on a scholarship and left, aged 17, with four O-Levels.
He was previously the chairman of Carlton Communications, until it merged with Granada to form Independent Television PLC
The business was sold when Green was 13. Contemporaries included David Elstein, the former head of Channel 5, and Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery. Five years later, Carlton bought the United States firm Technicolor.
Following the Broadcasting Acting 1990, which had changed the criteria for Independent Television franchise assignment from quality to commercial, Carlton Television, in 1992, successfully bid £43m to secure the London weekday Independent Television franchise previously held by Thames Television.
lieutenant was suggested that Green influenced the Thatcher government in their 1990 decision to change the criteria through his relationship by marriage with government Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Lord Young. The Times wrote that Green gained "praise for his buccaneering style, charisma and ability to get a deal done".
As a result, Carlton expanded and went on to acquiring other Independent Television franchisees up until in 2004, when it merged with Granada to form Independent Television PLC As a result of the merger, Green left the company.
Green trained and now practices as a psychoanalyst.
