Financial Advice NZ gets new chair

Heather Roy has been an independent director on the Financial Advice NZ board for one year and was made interim chairperson at its recent annual meeting.

Roy is a professional director who serves on several boards and was an ACT member of Parliament from 2002-2011 serving as Minister of Consumer Affairs in the John Key government from 2008-2010.

Her appointment is for three years with Financial Advice NZ chief executive Katrina Shanks saying Roy has already contributed a huge and rare depth of knowledge and expertise in governance experience over the past year that has greatly benefited the organisation and its members.

Roy was the chair of financial advice business Foxplan from 2018 to July 2020.