Skills Council Appoints New Board Members (Press Release 27-07-07)
The Financial Services Skills Council (FSSC), the body which provides strategic leadership for education, training and skills development for the UK financial services industry, has appointed two new members to its board.
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Financial Services LogoThe two appointees, Director of Jupiter Unit Trust Managers Limited Paula Moore and founder and Managing Director of FS3 Ltd Mike Godfrey, join the Board from July 2007. |
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Paula is responsible for Jupiter’s unit trust operations and client accounting. After qualifying as a chartered accountant, Paula worked in Ernst & Young’s Corporate Advisory Group before joining Apax Partners. Since 1991 she held a variety of roles in asset management before joining Jupiter in 1997 to work on the insourcing of the unit trust operations from a third party provider. Paula is a member of the Investment Management Association’s Funds Operations and Education Committees.
Mike has worked in financial services since 1978 and progressed through the industry, holding a senior role at Robert Flemings prior to setting up FS3 in 1999. Mike is both a Certified Financial Planner (Institute of Financial Planning) and a Chartered Financial Planner (Personal Finance Society). FS3 has developed into an award-winning fee-based employee benefit and wealth management practice, winning New Model Adviser of the Year (South East Region) in both 2006 and 2007, and Bankhall Member of the Year 2006.
FSSC Chairman Suart Bernau said:
“Employers have always been pivotal to the work of the Skills Council, but are now taking centre stage in national skills provision across all sectors, following Lord Leitch’s Review of Skills last year and the Government’s response, “World Class Skills: Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills in England, published this month. I am delighted that, with the appointment of Mike and Paula, the FSSC is continuing its commitment to having a wide range of employers represented on the board.”
Current Board members David Milner and Jane Petkovic reached the end of their terms as Board members and attended their last Board meeting this month.
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For further information, please contact
Zoe Hussain, Marketing & PR Officer, FSSC
020 7216 7510
zoe.hussain@fssc.org.uk
Sue Martin, Head of PR, FSSC
020 7216 7381
Notes to editors
The Financial Services Skills Council (FSSC) is an independent, employer-led organisation, established in 2004 to provide strategic leadership for education, training and skills development for the financial services industry across the UK. It aims to improve productivity and business performance by ensuring that the industry is equipped with the range and level of skills that it needs. The financial services sector is central to the UK economy, generating over 5% of UK GDP and with a turnover of more than £46bn a year. It employs more than a million people in more than 35,000 companies, and affects every single person in the UK. The FSSC sets performance standards for the entire sector, including banking, building societies, insurance companies and brokers, independent financial advisers, investment administration and pensions.
See: www.fssc.org.uk
