At its most recent meeting, LIA’s Board of Directors appointed Damian Wallace as non-executive director, effective immediately. Damian has been a financial professional for over 30 years and operates his own brokerage, Wallace Financial Consultants. He has attained the QFA, Grad Dip in Financial Planning and MSc in Financial Services and is a Certified Financial Planner®. He has been a member of LIA since first entering the profession in 1985.
Damian has experience across a broad range of private and public sector organisations and has a long-standing commitment to public service with extensive corporate governance and compliance experience. He has previously served as a director on a wide variety of different organisations including the Port of Cork Company, The National Standards Authority (NSAI), Cork Opera House where he was Chairman and as a member of the Valuation Tribunal. Damian is a former Lord Mayor of Cork.
Joanne Keane, LIA Chief Executive, said of Damian’s appointment: ‘Corporate governance is an area of great importance and one which our Board and Senior Leadership Team have focused heavily on in recent years to ensure that our organisation is always abiding by best practice. It is important that our members feel that their organisation is operating to the highest possible standard and that, most importantly, its future is in safe hands. Damian’s expertise in this area is a very welcome addition to our Board and both I and my fellow directors look forward to working with Damian.’
Damian’s appointment brings the number of directors to nine in total, following Clodagh Sheehan’s retirement from the Board earlier this year.