Malcolm Furber
 
Malcolm trained with ICI in the UK qualifying with CIMA in 1978 and has undertaken post qualifying studies in marketing at Bradford University, International management trends at Princeton (USA) 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. He is also a member of the South African Institute of Management.

After qualifying in 1978 he held the position of Marketing Accountant for ICI’s Agrochemical business in Asia Pacific 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 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 heavily involved in the establishment of performance improvement and measurement programmes. He was also a director of one of its subsidiary companies.

Malcolm currently has his own consulting business where 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 4 qualification reviews and its ethical code. He was 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. He is married to Zandra and has two daughters Zantelle and Christie.

He is President of the Institute.