{"id":82553,"date":"2026-05-28T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=82553"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:37:26","slug":"financial-advice-network-boosts-its-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2026\/05\/28\/financial-advice-network-boosts-its-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Advice Network Boosts its Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro bono <a href=\"https:\/\/www.probonoadvice.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Financial Advice Network<\/a> (PFAN) has appointed <strong>Eima\u00a0Alkheder<\/strong> and <strong>Ben Donald<\/strong> to its board.<\/p>\n<p>Donald is a life insurance specialist at <a href=\"https:\/\/lifeadvice.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Life Advice Partners<\/a>, with active industry involvement through insurer advisory boards, and the FAAA Life Insurance Committee.<\/p>\n<p>PFAN\u2019s Chair <strong>Nicola Beswick<\/strong> says the appointments support the organisation\u2019s focus on strengthening partnerships, expanding adviser participation and delivering high\u2011quality pro bono advice to Australians in need.<\/p>\n<p>The new appointments join existing board members <strong>Nicola Beswick<\/strong>, <strong>Natalie Kleibert<\/strong>, <strong>Stephen Knight<\/strong>, <strong>Anne McDonnell<\/strong>, <strong>Niall McConville<\/strong>, <strong>Paul Harding\u2011Davis<\/strong> and <strong>Aleks Vickovich<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>PFAN works with more than 170 financial advisers, delivering more than 850 hours of pro bono financial advice.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82552\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82552\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82552\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/05\/Ben-Donald-Headshot.png\" alt=\"Ben Donald\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Donald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82551\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82551\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/05\/Eima-Alkheder-Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Eima Alkheder\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eima Alkheder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro bono Financial Advice Network (PFAN) has appointed Eima\u00a0Alkheder and Ben Donald to its board. Donald is a life insurance specialist at Life Advice Partners, with active industry involvement through insurer advisory boards, and the FAAA Life Insurance Committee. PFAN\u2019s Chair Nicola Beswick says the appointments support the organisation\u2019s focus on strengthening partnerships, expanding adviser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":82556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-appointments"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82553","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82557,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82553\/revisions\/82557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}