David Blair

25 years of management and treasury experience David Blair, Independent Treasury Consultant, Singapore

David Blair has 25 years treasury experience, starting his career with Price Waterhouse, then founding ABB’s World Treasury Centre in Switzerland. After setting up Nokia’s global treasury centre in Switzerland, David set up Nokia Treasury Asia in Singapore, and then became Nokia Group Treasurer in Finland. Most recently, as VP Treasury, David drove a treasury transformation at Huawei in Shenzhen.

David has extensive experience managing global and diverse treasury teams, as well as playing a leading role in e-commerce standard developent and in professional associations. David has counselled corporations and banks as well as governments.

Through this David has gained extensive experience in most areas related to treasury: treasury management, management, multicultural leadership, international operations, emerging markets, asia, telecommunications, technology, mobile, Corporate Treasury, Treasury Management, Cash Management, Risk Management, Liquidity Management, Funding, Debt Capital Markets (DCM), Investment, Shared Service Centres (SSC), Financial Supply Chain, SWIFT (SCORE, MACUG, TSU), Treasury Management Systems (TMS), Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), Investor Relations, Ratings, Insurance, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)