Board Member at Cloudax. Former Group Chief Financial Officer of IHS Towers and key figure in its 2021 NYSE IPO, with decades of international Chief Financial Officer experience across emerging markets.
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.
David Ordman is a Board Member at Cloudax and the former Group Chief Financial Officer of IHS Towers, where he was a key figure in the company's 2021 IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. He continues as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee at IHS Towers.
David Ordman serves as a Board Member at Cloudax, providing strategic oversight on corporate finance, governance, capital markets, and scaling international operations.
David Ordman spent 11 years as Executive Vice President and Group Chief Financial Officer at IHS Towers. He was a key member of the team that led IHS Towers' successful 2021 IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, oversaw multiple debt and equity raises, led the corporate restructure of the Group, and integrated five major Latin American acquisitions with a combined equity value of approximately £1.2 billion.
Yes. David Ordman was a key member of the team that led IHS Towers' successful Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021, whilst serving as Executive Vice President and Group Chief Financial Officer.
Before IHS Towers, David Ordman held senior Chief Financial Officer roles across emerging and complex markets — including Chief Financial Officer of Millicom's operations in Pakistan, various Chief Financial Officer roles at United Utilities group companies in Estonia and Bulgaria, and Chief Financial Officer at Starcomms Plc in Nigeria.
David Ordman holds an MBA from both Columbia Business School and London Business School, and a B Eng (Hons) in Civil Engineering from the University of Birmingham. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (FCA), having trained as a Chartered Accountant at Price Waterhouse Coopers.