{"id":34627,"date":"2016-09-16T09:18:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T23:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=34627"},"modified":"2016-09-21T07:34:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T21:34:38","slug":"afa-board-elections-return-incumbents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2016\/09\/16\/afa-board-elections-return-incumbents\/","title":{"rendered":"AFA Board Election Results in New President, Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has announced the results of the election for Board members with Marc Bineham<\/strong> named as the new National President and Michael Nowak<\/strong>\u00a0elected as Vice President.<\/p>\n

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AFA National President-Elect, Marc Bineham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Six positions were being contested at the election, three on the Executive Committee and three State Director positions, where two AFA members stood for each position.<\/p>\n

Joining Bineham and Nowak on the Board\u00a0is former National President Deborah Kent<\/strong>, who was elected to the position of Treasurer, while Samantha Robinson<\/strong> was elected as State Director for Victoria, Tim Ross<\/strong> as State Director for Queensland and Jeff Thurecht<\/strong> was returned as State Director for NSW\/ACT.<\/p>\n

Ballots for State Directors in Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania were not required as James Ford<\/strong> (WA) and Dave Slovinec<\/strong> (SA) were only nominees in those state and were elected unopposed, while Matthew Hawkins<\/strong> (TAS) has one more year to run on his two-year term.<\/p>\n

The election for AFA Board members took place on-line between\u00a01 September and\u00a015 September, with a voting member participation rate of 30%.<\/p>\n

The new Board will take office at the conclusion of the Association\u2019s Annual General Meeting which is scheduled\u00a0to take place at the AFA National Adviser Conference in Canberra, on 6 October.<\/p>\n

AFA Election Results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Position<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nCandidate<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nVotes Received<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nResult<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
President<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nMarc Bineham<\/span><\/td>\n482<\/span><\/td>\nElected<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kevin Owen<\/span><\/td>\n384<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vice President<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nJenny Brown<\/span><\/td>\n366<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michael Nowak<\/span><\/td>\n503<\/span><\/td>\nElected<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Treasurer<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nDeborah Kent<\/span><\/td>\n446<\/span><\/td>\nElected<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sam Perera<\/span><\/td>\n422<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ACT\/NSW State Director<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nMichael d\u2019Apice<\/span><\/td>\n120<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jeff Thurecht<\/span><\/td>\n137<\/span><\/td>\nElected<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Queensland State Director<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nDianne Charman<\/span><\/td>\n89<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tim Ross<\/span><\/td>\n163<\/span><\/td>\nElected<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Victorian State Director<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nMelinda Houghton<\/span><\/td>\n70<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Samantha Robinson<\/span><\/td>\n103<\/span><\/td>\nElected<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has announced the results of the election for Board members with Marc Bineham named as the new National President and Michael Nowak\u00a0elected as Vice President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,282,259],"tags":[4247],"class_list":{"0":"post-34627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-appointments","8":"category-associations","9":"category-breaking","10":"tag-feature"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}