Jim Mather was born on March 6, 1947. He was elected to the Scottish Parliament to represent the Highlands and Islands at the 2003 and is a member of the Parliament's Finance Committee. He is the SNP's Shadow Enterprise and Economy Minister.
He joined the SNP in 1996 and is the SNP’s National Treasurer. He contested the Argyll and Bute seat in 2003 and was the SNP candidate in the 2001Ayr By-election. He has been involved in the development of the Economic Case for Independence and is a Director of Business for Scotland, a body which supports the SNP. He is a chartered accountant who was involved in the computer industry, latterly running his own business, before entering politics.
With the appointment in December of Primus State Manager, JimMather to the role of General Manager, Sales and Marketing the company is looking to feed the pipeline.
Mather spent 13 years in New Zealand as General Manager of Anite Networks, New Zealand Manager for Motorola and National Sales Manager for Telecom New Zealand, but returned in 1999 to work as Director of Business Sales for AAPT before joining Primus.
Mather has spent his first two months on the job refining the existing partner program and has launched a more robust program focused on its managed solution for the 20 to 200 seat companies.