CIMA President Malcom Fuber in Sri Lanka

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CIMA’s Global President for 2014, Malcom Fuber FCMA, CGMA, has arrived in Sri Lanka as part of his official tour to the organisation’s markets. As part of a packed itinerary, he will visit the British Ambassador in Sri Lanka and the Central Bank Governor, attend the bi-annual convocation and host a dinner for CIMA members. Fuber trained with ICI in the UK, qualifying as a CIMA member in 1978. He has since undertaken studies in marketing at Bradford University, international management trends at Princeton (US) and strategic management courses at SBL/UNISA and the London Business School.

He is a fellow of the Institute of Directors of Southern Africa and the Chartered Management Institute. Hence, he is a member of the South African Institute of Management. After qualifying in 1978, he worked as marketing accountant for ICI’s agrochemical business in the Asia-Pacific region, with responsibility for evaluation of new business opportunities and the performance of its operations in that region. He spent a brief period during this time working on a special assignment in Indonesia. Malcolm moved to South Africa in 1980, initially on secondment to ICI’s subsidiary, then transferring permanently in 1984, and held various senior positions in finance, information technology and corporate planning. In 1992, he joined Afrox, a gases and welding products supplier, as senior financial manager for its major production and distribution sites. Malcolm left Afrox in 2004, having been involved heavily in the establishment of performance improvement and measurement programs. He was also a director of one of its subsidiary companies. Malcolm currently has his own consulting business through which he has played a major role in business improvement assignments in both the private and public sector, which has included a two-year SAP business intelligence project at the South African Revenue Services. He is a regular speaker for CIMA globally on supply chain management, activity based costing, integrated business planning and performance management. He has been a member of CIMA’s council for 13 years, was a membership assessor and has been involved in CIMA’s last four qualification reviews and its ethical code. He also served as chairman of CIMA’s lifelong learning policy committee. In his spare time, he is a keen golfer, an archer, enjoys hiking, water sports, aerobatics and travel. He is also an avid scale military modeller.