{"id":38204,"date":"2017-09-05T14:59:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T04:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=38204"},"modified":"2017-09-06T06:56:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T20:56:40","slug":"jenny-brown-named-as-mdrt-australia-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2017\/09\/05\/jenny-brown-named-as-mdrt-australia-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Brown Named as MDRT Australia Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MDRT Australia has announced that Melbourne based financial adviser, <strong>Jenny Brown<\/strong>, of JBS Financial Strategists, has taken on the role of Chair, succeeding Adelaide adviser, <strong>Adam McCann<\/strong>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34693\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34693\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2016\/09\/Jenny-Brown-2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34693\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34693\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2016\/09\/Jenny-Brown-2016.jpg\" alt=\"MDRT Australia Chair, Jenny Brown\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MDRT Australia Chair, Jenny Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brown, who presented a Focus Session at the 2017 MDRT Annual Meeting earlier this year, stepped into the role on 1 September, succeeding McCann who held the voluntary position since September 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, Brown has vacated her position as MDRT Victoria State Chair which has in turn been filled by Geelong based adviser, <strong>Jamie McIntyre<\/strong> of Mac Financial.<\/p>\n<p>The other state chairs &#8211; <strong>Dominique Schuh<\/strong>(Qld), <strong>Mathew Gale<\/strong> (NSW), <strong>Steven Genoff<\/strong> (SA), and <strong>Peter Tucker<\/strong> (WA) \u2013 remain unchanged and <strong>Ross Hultgren<\/strong> and <strong>Mathew Fogarty<\/strong> will continue as Regional Chair and Oceania Chair, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Appointments have also been made to the MDRT\u2019s Executive Committee with <strong>James D. Pittman<\/strong> of Portland, Oregon named as the 92<sup>nd<\/sup> President, and<strong> Ian Green<\/strong> of London, England named as Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Queensland based adviser, <strong>Ross Vanderwolf<\/strong>, will serve as First Vice President and <strong>Regina Bedoya<\/strong> of Juno Beach, Florida will serve as Second Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>Pittman is a 43-year MDRT member with 16 Court of the Table and five Top of the Table qualifications. A Platinum Knight of the MDRT Foundation, he is also a member of its Inner Circle Society, a distinguished group of donors, and has served on its Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n<p>Green is a 19-year MDRT member with five Court of the Table and 11 Top of the Table qualifications, a Diamond Knight of the MDRT Foundation and a member of its Inner Circle Society.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38232\" style=\"width: 658px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/09\/MDRT-2018-Executive-Committee-small.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38232\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38232\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/09\/MDRT-2018-Executive-Committee-small.jpg\" alt=\"MDRT 2018 Executive Committee: (L-R): Regina Bedoya, Ross Vanderwolf, James Pittman, Mark Hanna and Ian Green. \" width=\"658\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/09\/MDRT-2018-Executive-Committee-small.jpg 789w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/09\/MDRT-2018-Executive-Committee-small-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/09\/MDRT-2018-Executive-Committee-small-768x584.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MDRT 2018 Executive Committee: (L-R): Regina Bedoya, Ross Vanderwolf, James Pittman, Mark Hanna and Ian Green.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MDRT Australia has announced that Melbourne based financial adviser, Jenny Brown, of JBS Financial Strategists, has taken on the role of Chair, succeeding Adelaide adviser, Adam McCann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-appointments","category-associations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38204","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=38204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}