Lifespan appoints National Practice Manager

Lifespan Financial Planning has announced the appointment of Michael Gershkov to the newly-created role of national practice manager.

Gershkov, who will be based in Melbourne, has 25 years' experience in the financial services industry, most recently at InterPrac Financial Planning, where he served as national practice manager for six years. Before that, he was network development manager at Capstone Financial Planning.

Commenting on his appointment, Lifespan CEO Eugene Ardino said: "In this time of industry flux, having a practice manager of the calibre of Michael is critical for helping our adviser network to not only make the transition to a new age of financial planning, but to actually be in a position to prosper."

Gershkov previously worked with Lifespan founder and executive chair, John Ardino, in his first financial planning job at Count Financial in 1994.

"John was both a role model and mentor to me. I'm very excited to be now working with his son, Eugene, and the leadership team at Lifespan," Gershkov said.