CIMA’s global President in town

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CIMA, Sri Lanka division announced that its Global President George Glass will make his official visit to Sri Lanka during the week.

Despite his tight schedule during his visit to Sri Lanka, he will officiate at the opening of the re-located office in Kandy on 29 March and meet high ranking government officials, diplomats and corporate leaders to discuss mutually beneficial business models to strengthen working relationships with CIMA.

Glass will be the chief guest at the CIMA convocations on 29 and 30 March for CIMA Passed Finalists and new members respectively and will also host a gala dinner for members and corporate dignitaries during his visit.

George is the finance director of the Balfour Timber Group. He is a graduate mechanical engineer, who joined the UK paper division of Reed International as a production engineer and went on to train as a management accountant. After qualifying with CIMA, he worked as deputy chief accountant in Reed's largest UK mill and subsequently became divisional systems controller. He then joined Butterworth Publishing as IT director, where he was responsible for an extensive systems upgrade programme and development of a worldwide communications network.

George then moved to Haymarket Publishing, a company that was spearheading the introduction of IT into magazine publishing. As IT director, he was responsible for the wholesale introduction of desktop publishing systems. He subsequently assisted in the development of web based publishing.

He has been heavily involved in CIMA’s member network, chairing his local branch and delivering presentations on information management. He was co opted to council in 2000, and served on the technical committee, which he later chaired.

More recently, he chaired the lifelong learning policy committee and the project board overseeing the revision of CIMA's syllabus. He sat as a member of the Investigation Committee from 2001 to 2004, when Council members became ineligible to take part.

George was on the IT committee of IFAC, on behalf of the CCAB, from 1998 until its winding up in 2002. As well as coordinating UK responses to international IT initiatives, he held overall responsibility for IFAC’s publication ‘A Directors’ Guide to the Evaluation and Selection of IT Projects. He also presented papers on CIMA’s view of the management accountant as the champion of corporate information management at IFAC meetings.