Tuesday, 11 March 2008

Datacraft Appoints CFO

Datacraft has appointed a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to lead the organisation’s finance team and contribute to its financial performance.

Stanley Ip, who will be taking up this position effective 1st April 2008, brings with him 27 years of financial management experience in US corporate headquarters, Asia Pacific regional headquarters and country sales & marketing operations.

Prior to Datacraft, Mr. Ip was the Senior Finance Director, Asia Pacific Region of Sun Microsystems covering six sub-regions- Japan, Australiasia, Greater China, Korea, Asia South & India.

During his 19 years’ career with Sun Microsystems from 1989 to 2008, he held a number of other senior financial management positions including Finance Director for the Asia South region in Singapore, Corporate Financial Planning Manager for Sun Microsystems Inc. in USA, Financial Controller for Sun's Internet Commerce Group in USA and Financial Controller- Asia in Hong Kong.

He had set up two joint ventures in Philippines and Indonesia in the 1990s, led the APAC finance integration team in the Storagetek acquisition in 2006 and served as the leader of the Sun's APAC Finance hubbing & transformation initiative in 2007.

“Stanley’s extensive experience and proven track record in finance management are highly valuable to Datacraft as we continue our drive to deliver sustainable profitable growth, generate cash and increase return to shareholders,” said Bill Padfield, CEO of Datacraft Asia.