The Financial Services Council has appointed Blake Briggs to the newly created position of Deputy Chief Executive Officer.
A statement from the FSC says Briggs has spent the last two years as Head of Government Affairs for Wealth at Westpac. Prior to that he was the FSC’s Senior Policy Manager, Superannuation. He has also worked at the Department of Workplace Relations NSW and as Senior Industrial Relations Policy Advisor with the NSW Business Chamber.
Chairman of the FSC Board Geoff Lloyd welcomed Briggs to the FSC as CEO Sally Loane’s deputy.
He says that Briggs joins “… at a challenging time for the financial services sector, which is at the forefront of delivering much needed services to Australians as we all work together to help mitigate the economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis”.
FSC CEO Sally Loane welcomed Briggs back to the FSC in this senior role.
“His depth of experience in financial services policy and government relations will strengthen the FSC’s excellent policy team both now during the current period and into the future.
“Our members in financial services across the board – advice, superannuation, funds management and life insurance – are all playing a critical role in helping Australians, and more broadly in the economy, as the Government applies a raft of unprecedented financial measures to assist Australians during the COVID-19 emergency,” Loane says.
Briggs starts with the council in May.
