Tributes paid to SimplyBiz MD Ian Thorneycroft

Ken Davy, chairman of the support services company, says Thorneycroft died peacefully in his sleep on Sunday evening. Thorneycroft, the founding MD of SimplyBiz Services in 2002 and an AIFA director, had taken long-term leave from the business in March 2009 after being diagnosed with colon cancer. Davy reveals Thorneycroft, who leaves a wife, two children and two grandchildren, was given hope only a fortnight ago that he had beaten the cancer. "It is with enormous sadness and a very heavy heart that I have to inform you that Ian Thorneycroft, our much loved and sadly missed managin...