Career
Gold played professional football as a teenager, including an 18-month spell with Rangers. He was a civil servant for over thirty years. Gold was chairman of Hibernian until he resigned after the club was relegated in 1998.
In 1998 he was invited to deliver the Marlow (Scotland) Lecture to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.
Gold was also on the boards of National Health Service Lanarkshire, Scottish Enterprise, the Scottish Chamber of Commerce and the Confederation of British Industry in Scotland. Until June 2009 Gold was the executive chairman of the SPL.
