CIMA appoints Director of Employer and Strategic Development

12 January 2007

CIMA (The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) has appointed Rick Sturge to a newly created post of Director of Employer and Strategic Development within the senior management team. The appointment is part of a restructuring of the organisation to increase our focus on global employer relations and the needs of customers internationally.

CIMA is the only international body with a sole focus on business and the fastest growing chartered accountancy body in membership terms in the UK. It represents over 158,000 members and students worldwide.

Sturge joins CIMA from Accenture, where he was a Business Development Director within the firm's Business Process Outsourcing group. He will be responsible for CIMA's employer development framework and student recruitment throughout the UK and internationally.

CIMA has done much over the last few years to build a strong infrastructure to deliver its services to customers more effectively, and has developed its qualification framework to better serve the needs of employers.

Charles Tilley, Chief Executive of CIMA said, 'I believe this restructuring of the organisation will enable us to deliver the next stage of CIMA's development in what is an increasingly competitive global environment. This environment needs more focus on customer relationships globally, as well as clarity of purpose across the organisation. Rick Sturge's appointment will help facilitate this.

This revised structure provides us with an excellent platform to allow all of us to take CIMA forward on the next stage of our exciting journey ' to make CIMA the first choice for employers.'

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For further information, please contact:

Annette Heninger
Press Officer, CIMA
+44 (0) 20 8849 2427
annette.heninger@cimaglobal.com

Notes to editors

1. CIMA (the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) is the only international accountancy body with a sole focus on business. It is a world leading professional institute that offers an internationally recognised qualification in management accountancy, focusing on accounting in business, in both the private and public sectors. It is the fastest growing UK based accountancy body, in terms of members, in both the UK and worldwide and is the voice of over 88,000 students and 70,000 members in 161 countries. CIMA is responsible for the education and training of management accountants who work in industry, commerce and not-for-profit and has more members in the public sector than any other UK based body. CIMA prides itself on the commercial relevance of its syllabus, which is in tune with the activities of high performance organisations, and evolves continually to reflect the latest developments in global business. It is committed to upholding the highest ethical and professional standards of members and students, and to maintaining public confidence in management accountancy. For more information about CIMA, please visit www.cimaglobal.com
   
2. Rick Sturge is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years' experience of working both in senior finance, commercial and business development roles in a range of service organisations.
   Having trained with Coopers & Lybrand, his first industry role was with London Life, later to become part of AMP. He then became European CFO of a consulting engineering division within WMX Technologies. A move into commercial and business development roles resulted in him becoming an outsourcing specialist with cross industry experience. He has worked for Serco, BT and more recently the BPO operations within PwC and Accenture supporting a range of multinational clients in different industries.