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Article: Silicon don: CIMA's 71st president has worked at the forefront of educational technology for more than two decades. Camilla Berens finds out why IBM turned to computer fanatic Roland Kaye when it ran out of ideas.(Interview: Roland Kaye)(Interview)
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- Financial Management (UK)
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- July 1, 2004
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Professor Roland Kaye is ideally suited to the role of CIMA's presidency. His career has taken him into the worlds of both business and academia, and his experiences have left him with a solid appreciation of the needs of most of the institute's stakeholder groups.
Kaye's big passion is computers, and his fascination has helped to produce some landmark innovations. At the start of his career he astutely realised the enormous potential of information technology when computer research took off in the 1970s. At the time he was working as a commercial accountant for Ross Foods, one of the very few companies that was enlightened enough to have a computerised financial ...