IMCA appoints Keri Pratt to its board

The Investment Management Consultants Association - Australia (IMCA) has announced that Keri Pratt has been appointed to its board, effective 28 November 2016.

Pratt is an experienced company director and is currently a non-executive director of two industry associations, a national sports organisation and a NFP in the disability sector.

She was most recently head of institutional sales at Franklin Templeton, a role she held for four years and departed from in August 2016.

With 25 years' industry experience, she has also held roles with GMO Australia, as head of client service; National Corporate Investment Services, as director investment services; Lend Lease Investment Services, and MLC.

Commenting on Pratt's appointment - as well as the appointments of fellow new board directors, Annika Bradley, Kim Bowater, Paul Newfield and Hendrie Koster - Brett Elvish, chair of IMCA Australia, said: "These appointments are a nod to the past and a nod to the future. We have been careful to ensure we have the right mix of our traditional constituency as well as sufficient skills and experience of where we are headed and what we need to get there."

He added: "We also have been mindful of diversity with the three female appointments to improve the Board's gender diversity and we also are pleased to make an appointment that is based outside of Sydney and Melbourne."

Retiring from the board are Robert Hogg, Graeme Miller, Paul O'Connor, Ian Patrick and Janice Sengupta.