James Maclaurin was appointed Group Chief Financial Officer of Axiata Group Berhad on 25th April 2011.
James has worked in the telecommunications industry for 15 years and has held a number of senior finance leadership positions including CFO for Africa and Central Europe at Vodafone, Group CFO of Celtel, the pan-African mobile operator, CFO of UbiNetics, the 3G technology developer and EVP Finance of Marconi, the UK based telecoms vendor subsequently sold to Ericsson. In the mid 90's James worked in Asia and served as the FD of General Electric Co of Singapore and prior to this James was the FD of the General Electric Co of Bangladesh. James is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (qualified 1992) and holds degrees in Engineering and Finance from the Universities of Dundee and Heriot Watt in Edinburgh respectively.