Martin Fahy has been appointed Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) chief executive officer.
Following the sale of Finsia Education to Kaplan, Fahy is charged with developing the organisation as a professional services and lobbying body.
Fahy was formerly Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Asia Pacific director.
He is widely-published in the area of finance transformation. Prior to CIMA, Fahy was an academic at National University of Ireland, Galway.
Finsia president Michael Shepherd said Fahy would take over the responsibility for developing Finsia as a professional services body.
"He has a wealth of international experience in leading a professional services organisation as well as working closely with finance executives in the corporate and banking spheres, around the world," he said.
On June 18 Finsia members endorsed the proposed sale of Finsia Education for $36 million.
Consequently, Finsia has a capital base of approximately $45 million to improve and expand member services.
