David Ordman

David Ordman is a Board Member at Cloudax. His career is the story of a Chief Financial Officer built for the hardest end of international business: emerging markets, infrastructure at scale, and public capital markets. He began at Price Waterhouse Coopers, where he trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant and built the technical foundations that underpin everything since.

From there, he took the unusual path of running finance functions in some of the toughest operating environments in the world. He served as Chief Financial Officer of Millicom's operations in Pakistan, held various Chief Financial Officer roles at United Utilities group companies in Estonia and Bulgaria, and was Chief Financial Officer at Starcomms Plc in Nigeria, a career spent translating complex local realities into financial discipline, control, and strategy. His defining chapter came at IHS Towers, one of the world's largest independent mobile telecommunications infrastructure providers.

David spent 11 years as Executive Vice President and Group Chief Financial Officer, where he was a key member of the team that led IHS Towers' successful Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021. During his tenure he was responsible for multiple debt and equity raises, led the corporate restructure of the Group, and integrated five major acquisitions across Latin America with a combined equity value of approximately £1.2 billion. It is the kind of CV that you usually read piece by piece (a single IPO here, a single major acquisition there) compressed into a decade of execution at Group level.

Today, David continues at IHS Towers as Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee, serving as a director of various IHS Towers entities across Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil, and Kuwait. He holds an MBA from both Columbia Business School and London Business School, a B Eng (Hons) in Civil Engineering from the University of Birmingham, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (FCA). At Cloudax, David brings the full weight of that experience to the board: the institutional rigour, the M&A and capital markets playbook, and the lens of an international operator who has scaled a telecoms business to public markets and governed it there.