{"id":49552,"date":"2020-04-14T12:52:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T01:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=49552"},"modified":"2020-04-14T14:04:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T03:04:15","slug":"fsc-appoints-deputy-ceo-new-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2020\/04\/14\/fsc-appoints-deputy-ceo-new-role\/","title":{"rendered":"FSC Appoints Deputy CEO &#8211; New Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Services Council has appointed <strong>Blake Briggs<\/strong> to the newly created position of\u00a0 Deputy Chief Executive Officer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49578\" style=\"width: 146px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/Blake-Briggs-FSC-1-e1586833176203.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-49578\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/Blake-Briggs-FSC-1-e1586833176203-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/Blake-Briggs-FSC-1-e1586833176203-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/04\/Blake-Briggs-FSC-1-e1586833176203.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FSC&#8217;s Deputy CEO designate, Blake Briggs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the FSC Board <strong>Geoff Lloyd<\/strong> welcomed Briggs to the FSC as CEO Sally Loane&#8217;s deputy.<\/p>\n<p>He says that Briggs joins \u201c\u2026 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\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>FSC CEO Sally Loane welcomed Briggs back to the FSC in this senior role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis depth of experience in financial services policy and government relations will strengthen the FSC\u2019s excellent policy team both now during the current period and into the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur members in financial services across the board\u00a0 &#8211; advice, superannuation, funds management and life insurance\u00a0 &#8211; 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,\u201d Loane says.<\/p>\n<p>Briggs starts with the council in May.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Services Council has appointed Blake Briggs to the newly created position of\u00a0 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&#8217;s Senior Policy Manager, Superannuation. He has also worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":49554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-appointments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49552","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}