John Macaulay is a former Chair of the IMA Global Board and a member of the IMA Emeritus Committee. He served in the Chair role in fiscal 2012-2013, and he has been an IMA member for more than 40 years.

Macaulay has extensive senior-level management experience in finance, accounting, directorship, and more. In 2010, Macaulay retired as vice president, chief financial officer, and controller from Royal Street Communications. Other positions he held during his long career include vice chairman, chair audit committee, and director of MDI, Inc.; senior vice president and CFO of Pillowtex, Inc.; vice president and controller of Overhead Door Company; and vice president and controller for the first-year startup of Global Industrial Technologies, a major NYSE industrial company divested from Dresser Industries.

Macaulay passed the first CMA examination in 1972. In addition to serving as IMA Chair, he served on the IMA Global Board of Directors at various times for a total of 14 years and served on the ICMA Board of Regents from 1996-2002. He is an active past president of the Texas Council and the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter and has served as a Governor of the Stuart Cameron McLeod Society (SCMS).

Macaulay received his MBA with Distinction from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University in 1972. He earned his BA in Biology and Chemistry at St. Olaf College in 1965.