PFS reinstates chief executive role; hunts for interim CEO

'New candidate in place before end of summer'

Julia Bahr
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The board of the Personal Finance Society (PFS) has revealed that it will recruit an interim CEO, ahead of the appointment of a full-time CEO in 2023.

The professional body said the role will be exclusively focused on supporting members' interests during the remainder of 2022. The interim CEO will provide executive leadership as the PFS aims to build out its working practices to better meet members' interests, it added. The decision to start the recruitment process came one year after the CII's former CEO Sian Fisher dissolved the role of CEO at the PFS. It followed the exit of long-time chief executive Keith Richards after eight years in the job. The PFS board highlighted that while the general insurance and personal finance sector...

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