Godfrey to chair FPA
Godfrey Pembroke founder and respected industry figure John Godfrey will chair the FPA when John Hewison steps down in November.
Godfrey joined the FPA board on Wednesday as its second external director after a board resolution last year that a second external director should be recruited.
FPA chairman John Hewison described Godfrey as “the founder of the Australian financial planning industry”.
“It is a sign of the growing maturity of the association, and the industry as a whole, that the board was prepared to think laterally and make decisions based on the best interests of the FPA and the board’s future operation,” he said.
Godfrey is perhaps best known as the driving force behind the respected Godfrey Pembroke financial planning network that was sold to MLC two years ago. He is currently also chairman of a number of other groups, including the NZ based Tower financial planning subsidiary Goldridge. He was honoured with life membership to the FPA in 1998.
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