Honorary officers elected.
| Position | INSTITUTE UPDATE - Elections of presidents at Chartered Institute of Management Accountants |
JOHN COGHLAN FCMA, PRESIDENT
John Coghlan worked for Jefferson Smurfit Group for 30 years. Before this, he held financial roles at J&C McGloughlin, Unidare and Chrysler Ireland. He joined Smurfit in 1971, became an operating subsidiary chief executive in 1980 and a divisional chief executive in 1990. In 1997 he became managing director of Smurfit UK, responsible for managing 30 operating subsidiaries across Britain.
Coghlan's involvement with CIMA began in Ireland in 1974. In 1995 he became vice-president of the Republic of Ireland division, followed by divisional president in 1997. He was co-opted to council the following year and served on the international and professional standards committees. He became chairman of the marketing committee in 2003 and was elected council member for area 3. He has served on the executive committee and on many working parties. In 2004 he was elected vice-president of the institute and became deputy president a year later.
Coghlan has also been a council member of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the port committee and chairman of the central corridor joint task group. He was council member and honorary treasurer of both the Irish Printing Federation and the British Corrugated Packaging Association and has been a board member of the small industries board of the Irish Industrial Development Authority. He has been external examiner for the BSc in print technology for the Dublin Institute of Technology and is FD of Welwyn Garden City Golf Club.
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GORDON GRANT FCMA, DEPUTY PRESIDENT
Gordon Grant is operations director of software supplier DEM Solutions. He was previously the principal of NXFD, which specialised in company growth, globalisation, strategic positioning and relationship management. During this period he undertook an eight-month assignment in Aberdeen as interim chief executive of Petrodata, a supplier of remote well management systems to the oil and gas industry.
From 1992 to 2004 he was FD and director for the US, Mexico and Venezuela at software provider Edinburgh Petroleum Services, helping it to accumulate revenues of 65m [pounds sterling] over this time. He was also president of its manpower leasing company in Mexico. Before this, he held a variety of financial analysis roles at Unisys Corporation. Grant has also served as a trustee of various pension and beneficiary trusts.
His involvement with the institute started at branch level in 1986. Since then, his...
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