Sylvan launches advisory board and makes first appointment

IFA firm formed during pandemic

Jenna Brown
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Sylvan Financial Management has appointed Gordon Mazza to its newly formed advisory board.

The Cheadle-based firm was formed eight months ago during the height of the pandemic by three Chartered advisers, Jane Patrick, Ed Painter and Adrian Edwards. It provides independent management and financial planning and has set up the advisory board to get an outside view and advice on the "complex and fast-moving" financial services market. Mazza has almost 30 years' experience in the financial advice market. In 1998 he became a founding director of the Roberts Partnership, which was sold to a private bank in 2016.  He is now based in Denmark and is pursuing a number of interests...

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