The Private Finance Society has appointed Sheffield-based Chartered Monetary Planner Ben Wright to its board.
He’ll serve for an preliminary four-year time period.
Not working as a monetary adviser, Mr Wright is the founder and director at monetary companies consultancy agency, Change Squared.
He’s additionally trustee of the Go well with Works, a charity targeted on social mobility by serving to unemployed folks again into work, and can be an unbiased non govt director at a nationwide monetary recommendation community.
Mr Wright was appointed following over 200 purposes. He was advisable by the PFS Nominations Committee on account of his wide selection of expertise and data.
He mentioned: “It’s an actual honour to be elected to the board of the skilled physique I’ve been a member of for 20 years and it seems like the right time to assist form the subsequent chapter of the PFS’s story. I’ll be closely targeted on what we are able to do to virtually help our members as they cope with the challenges of immediately, while maintaining a tally of getting ready for his or her future.
“I’m additionally eager to seek out new methods to carry by the subsequent technology of Monetary Planning professionals, cementing the way forward for our career.”
The skilled physique has additionally elected two of its present administrators, Carla Brown and Daniel Williams, as vice presidents.
Each will act as vice chairman this 12 months, with one to be elected to function president for 2025, topic to affirmation on the PFS’ AGM. The opposite will function president for 2026.
Ms Brown has additionally been appointed chair of the PFS Energy Panel, which she has served on for a number of years.
Don MacIntyre, interim CEO of the PFS, mentioned: “Carla and Dan’s appointments present members with a consistency of imaginative and prescient for the medium-term. Our members’ ardour and dedication to their skilled membership physique shone by the applying course of and I do know our organisation is now well-placed to drive ahead our bold marketing strategy for 2024 and past.”
