The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) has appointed Macquarie Capital Advisers executive director Marianne Birch as president.
Birch, who has been on the Finsia board since 2005, will succeed Malcolm McComas.
"[Birch] has a long and impressive history within the financial services industry, and with Finsia in particular," McComas said.
"Her contribution to Board activities since her appointment in 2005 has been highly effective and her new role as president is very well deserved," he said.
Birch's appointment was approved during the annual general meeting of the organisation in Melbourne last week.
"We have seen Finsia develop through substantial changes in the last few years, the most significant being the sale of its education arm to Kaplan," Birch said.
"This has provided the organisation and its members with new opportunities and challenges" she said.
Birch originally joined the Securities Institute of Australasia (SIA) in 1992.
She has been on the Finsia Board since 2005; Chair of the Membership Advisory Committee and a Member of the NSW Regional Council.
