Helm member · The Drum
Diane Young
Diane Young co-founded The Drum, the marketing media brand, and grew it from a Glasgow magazine into an international business.

About Diane
Diane co-founded The Drum in the late 1990s with Gordon Young and Nick Creed, buying out a Glasgow marketing magazine and rebuilding it as a media brand for the marketing industry.
The Drum grew from Scotland into Manchester and London, and from print into video, events, awards and a global online audience. She studied maths at the University of Strathclyde and started out as a statistics analyst.
At a glance
- Co-founded The Drum
- From a Glasgow magazine to an international media brand




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