Mazars appoints David James as Director for International Business Development
David James graduated from Cambridge University in 1987 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with the ICAEW in 1991. He is a “biegly rewident” or Polish licensed auditor since 1994. He has a 28 year professional experience in the auditing profession encompassing internal and external audit roles, numerous board level roles and experience of facilitating start-ups for clients on at least fifty occasions around Central and Eastern Europe. He has been audit engagement partner for over 100 companies and groups from diverse sectors of industry, ranging from quoted companies on the Warsaw Stock Exchange through Private Equity down to family businesses. He has led over 80 successful due diligence exercises. He has performed extensive forensic accounting investigations and has advised on systems of internal control for many clients.
“David's vast experience in our profession, working with a variety of clients in Poland and CEE Region across the wide spectrum of industries, means he is ideally suited to drive growth and development for the firm through building relationships with the international clients and to answer the growing demand from Polish enterprises and those wishing to develop within the region. We are happy to have him in this role” – said Michel Kiviatkowski, Managing Partner of Mazars in Poland.
“It is a great pleasure to take on the international business developments activities and I look forward to building on and further develop the strong relationships established in recent years. I look forward to ensuring we continue to give our clients the right mix of industry and functional advice to help them with these issues” – said David James on his appointment.
David has mentored around 100 teams of young entrepreneurs over the course of four years in the Cambridge Python Project under the aegis of the British Embassy and Cambridge University, teaching students from all over Poland how to make cutting-edge business plans, budgets etc.
He is the author of the Goldlist Method – an acclaimed learning method for foreign languages.
He has experience working in Poland, UK, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Russia and has a professional command of eight languages and a reading knowledge of over twelve more.